Course detail
Engineering Optics
FSI-TIO Acad. year: 2019/2020 Winter semester
The course "Optical Engineering" deals with the aspects of optics and is based on the new trends and recent results in applications of modern optics for solving engineering tasks. The main aim of the subject is focused on the following areas: transmission and evaluation of optical information, elements of special optical
measurement systems, non-destructive measurement techniques, holography, optical correlation and spatial filtering, crystal optics, electro-optical and acousto-optical elements, lasers and their selected applications.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Light trajectory in the gradient environment. Relation between coherent length and spectral width of radiation. Physical principles of laser working. Open propagation and Gaussian pack transformation. Optical anisotropy. Use of the electro-optical and acusto-optical effects. Holographic interferometry. Spectral Interferometry. Coherent optical correlators.
Prerequisites
Students are expected to have the following knowledge and skills when they begin the course: the theory of the electromagnetic field, the geometrical optics, the wave optics and the basic methods of the optical measurements.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Written exam, solution of the selected tasks.
Aims
The aim of the course is to create a complex overview of the coherent optics. Applications of modern optics: laser interferometry and anemmometry, electro-optical and acusto-optical modulators and deflectors, optical non-destructive testing, optical processing.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Active participation in seminars. Absence will be compensated for by writing an essay on the given topic.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2A-P: Applied Sciences in Engineering, Master's
branch M-FIN: Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology, compulsory
Programme M2A-P: Applied Sciences in Engineering, Master's
branch M-PMO: Precise Mechanics and Optics, compulsory
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-VAS: Production of Automotive and Technical Lights, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Light propagation in an inhomogeneous medium. Equation of eiconal.
Guided-wave optics. Waveguide modes.
Fibre optics. (Step-index fibres, graded-index fibres.)
Matrix description of the ray propagation in optics.
Coherent light. Spatial and temporal coherence.
Physical principles of lasers. Optical resonators. Laser systems.
Gaussian beams. Properties. Transmission through optical components.
Laser aplication: Laser interferometry. Anemometry. Line and plain Alignments.
Optical non-destructive testing: Holographic interferometry. Speckle photography. Tomography.
Crystal optics. Jones calculus the polarisation of light. Electro-optics. Acusto-optics.
Moiré.
Laboratory exercise
12 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Coherence length of the He-Ne laser.
Laser interferometer.
Application of lasers.
Laser microinterferometry.
Light polarisation.
Computation using the light.
Exercise
14 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Calculation of light path in a graded-index medium.
Ray tracing in the optical system using matrix representation.
Coherence length calculation from the spectral characteristics.
Calculation of the Gaussian pack parameters. Gaussian pack transformation.
Calculation of the electro-optical modulator parameters and acusto-optical deflector of the light.