Syllabus
1- Introduction
2- Waves (properties of harmonic waves, complex representation, superposition,..)
3- Electromagnetic Theory of Light (basic laws, energy and momentum, photons, radiation spectrum, light-matter interaction, dispersion, ..)
5- Geometric Optics (spherical surfaces, thin lenses, mirrors, imaging, prisms, fiberoptics, ray tracing, aberrations..)
6- Optical Systems (human eye, camera, telescopes, microscopes,..)
7- Wave Optics (superposition, wave packets, pulses, group velocity ..)
8- Polarization of Light (polarizers, birefringence, waveplates, ..)
9- Interference (principles, interferometers, single and multilayer films,..)
10- Diffraction (Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction, implications for imaging systems..)
11- Modern Optics (lasers, holography, ..)
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