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Lectures
Teachers Val Zwiller (zwiller@kth.se) and Ali Elshaari (elshaari@kth.se).
Lecture schedule check the course schedule.
Book Please bring your book (E. Hecht, Optics) to the lectures as we will sometimes discuss material from the book
Table of contents The table below lists the topics covered by each lecture. There are also problem classes (calculation exercises) accompanying the course.
Activity
Content
Lecture 1
Introduction: What is light?, Maxwell's equations, photons. Hecht 1,3:1-3, 3:6.
Lecture 2
Geometrical optics, thin and thick lenses mirrors.
Hecht 5:1-5, 6:1.
¶ Lecture will be over zoom¶ Exercise 1¶ Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶ Exercise 1¶
Lecture 3
Refractive index, dispersion, scattering, reflection, refraction, Fermat’s principle, total internal reflection, Goos-Hänchen shift, Fresnel’s equations, Brewster angle.
Hecht 3:5, 4:1-7.
Lecture 4
Optical systems: Fibers, human eye, microscope, telescope.
Hecht 5:6-7.
Exercise 2
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶ Lecture 5
Telescope, aberrations, optical tweezers, near-field optical microscope, resolution.
Hecht 5:7-8, 6:3, 10:2.6.
¶ Moved to either 8:00-10:00 or 13:00-15:00¶ Lecture 6
Polarization, birefringence, Stokes vectors.
Hecht 8:1-6, 8:13.
Exercise 3
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.¶ Lecture 7
Polarisation, Stokes vectors, retarders, elasto-optic, magneto-optic and electro-optic effects, optical activity, LCD.
Hecht 8:7, 8:10-13.
Lecture 8
Jones vectors. Quantum entanglement, Bell measurement
Exercise 4
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.
Lecture 9
Interference, temporal and spatial coherence, double-slit experiment, Michelson interferometer. Hecht 9:1-4
Lecture 10
Diffraction, single slit, double slit generalization to many slits, spectrometers 10:1-2
Exercise 5
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.
¶ Answering questions from last session.¶ Lecture 11
Fourier optics. Hecht 10:2, 11:1-3.
Fabry-Perot interferometer. Hecht 9:6
Exercise 6
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.
¶ Answering questions from last session.¶ Lecture 12
Holography, Michelson stellar interferometer.
Hecht 13:3, 12:5
Exercise 7
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.
¶ Answering questions from last session.¶ Lecture 13
Photodetectors, slow light, superluminal light, metamaterials.
Hecht 7:2.2, 7:4 (p. 329-332), 3:5
Exercise 8
Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.
¶ Answering questions from last session.¶ Lecture 14
Solar energy