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Lectures
Teachers
Val Zwiller (zwiller@kth.se) and Marijn Versteegh (verst@kth.se).
Lecture schedule
check the course schedule.
Table of contents
The table below lists the topics covered by each lecture. There are also problem classes (calculation exercises) accompanying the course.
Lecture no |
Book chapter |
Topics |
Teacher |
1 |
1, 2:1-9, 3:1-3, 3:6 |
Introduction, waves in general, Maxwell's equations, photons |
Val Zwiller |
2 |
3:5, 4:1-2 |
Light in matter, propagation of light |
Val Zwiller |
3 |
4:3-7, 4:9 |
Reflection and refraction |
Val Zwiller |
4 |
5:1-5, 6:1 |
Geometrical optics, lenses, mirrors, systems of lenses |
Marijn Versteegh |
5 | 8:1-6 | Polarisation and birefringence | Marijn Versteegh |
6 |
8:7-12, 7:1-3 |
Polarisation continued. Group velocity. |
Marijn Versteegh |
7 |
9:1-3 |
Introduction to interference, Young's double slit interference. |
Marijn Versteegh |
8 |
9:4-7 |
Interferometers: Michelson, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Fabry-Perot, antireflection coatings |
Marijn Versteegh |
9 |
10:1-2, 11 |
Diffraction, Fourier optics, diffraction gratings |
Marijn Versteegh |
10 |
5:6-8 |
Optical fibers. Optical instruments: microscope, camera, telescope, adaptive optics, scanning near-field optical microscope |
Val Zwiller |
11 |
6:2-3 |
Optical instruments continued. Eye. Aberrations. |
Val Zwiller |
12 |
12:1-4, 13:3 |
Coherence, holography |
Val Zwiller |
13 |
12:5 |
Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometer, light sensors |
Val Zwiller |
14 | Quantum entanglement | Val Zwiller |