Course detail
Advanced Experimental Methods in Optics
FSI-TSO Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester
The course is devoted to the basic and advanced optical measurement methods and their engineering applications.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
The knowledge of engineering and applied optics is expected.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Completion of the course is conditional on having attended all exercises according to the schedule and submitted all reports in at least sufficient quality. The course classification reflects the assessment of the reports, the quality of preparation and of laboratory works.
Completion of all exercises specified in the selected course option according to the instructions of the tutors is obligatory.
Aims
The goal of the course is to teach students the basic methods of the optical measurement including the measurement of optical elements and to familiarise students practically with the implementation and accuracy of interference, diffraction and microscopic methods.
Students acquire knowledge and skills necessary for designing of optical systems, measurements and observations.
Students experience experimental work in a team, gain the competence to apply theoretical knowledge during the practical measurement and to present the results of their work in a written form.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PMO-P: Precise Mechanics and Optics, Master's, compulsory
Programme C-AKR-P: , Lifelong learning
specialization CZS: , elective
Type of course unit
Laboratory exercise
39 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Course Curriculum is formed by particular exercises which are completed according to instructions of the respective teachers.
Exercises in the course:
1) Measurement of angles of optical prisms, wedges, and planparalel plates by means of the ray optics.
2) Precise measurements of angles of optical elements by interference methods.
3) Refractive index measurement.
4) Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
5) Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy – LIBS.
6) Optical profilometry – surface-topography measurement.
7) Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction.
8) Optical microscopy – basic methods.
9) Confocal microscopy.
10) Holographic microscopy.
10) Special optical beams.