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Lecture 1

Introduction: What is light?, Maxwell's equations, photons.

Lecture 2

Geometrical optics, thin and thick lenses mirrors.

Exercise 1

Lecture 3

Refractive index, dispersion, scattering, reflection, refraction, Fermat’s principle, total internal reflection, Goos-Hänchen shift, Fresnel’s equations, Brewster angle.

Lecture 4

Optical systems: Fibers, human eye, microscope, telescope.

Exercise 2

Lecture 5

Telescope, aberrations, optical tweezers, near-field optical microscope, resolution.

Lecture 6

Polarization, birefringence, Stokes vectors.

Exercise 3

Lecture 7

Polarisation, Stokes vectors, retarders, elasto-optic, magneto-optic and electro-optic effects, optical activity, LCD.

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.

Lecture 10

Diffraction, single slit, double slit generalization to many slits, spectrometers

Exercise 5

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.

Lecture 11

Fourier optics. Fabry-Perot interferometer.

Exercise 6

Lecture 12

Holography, Michelson stellar interferometer.

Exercise 7

Lecture 13

Photodetectors, slow light, superluminal light, metamaterials.

Exercise 8

Questions are posted on Canvas before the session. In addition to homework for the next session.

Lecture 14

Solar energy