Course detail
Proseminar in Optics
FSI-T0S Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer semester
The course deals with selected topics of optics which were not talked about in the previous semester. Partly, it can be modified according to suggestion or needs of students. Students experience also some experimental work in laboratory.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Wave optics
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students are evaluated on the basis of discussion on topics explained during the course and processing of a selected topic.
The attendance at the courses is obligatory. In the case of excused absence an individual way of compensation can be arranged.
Aims
The aim is to extend the understanding of selected optical principles and effects and support of individual or group dealing with problems using a mathematical description or work in the laboratory.
Students will acquire the knowledge and skills of selected parts of geometrical and wave optics.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PMO-P: Precise Mechanics and Optics, Master's, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
10 hours, optionally
Syllabus
- Principles of light generation
- Absorption of light
- Dispersion of light
- Propagation of a wave packet
- Matrix optics
- Stigmatic and astigmatig imaging
- Spatial filtration, 4F system
- Basic conceprs of Fourier optics
The curriculum can be changed according to suggestion and needs of students.
Laboratory exercise
6 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Spatial filtration, 4F system
Exercise
10 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Seminars include practical problems related to the course.