Optics, 5 cr

Core content: 

• Light fundamentals: ray, wave, and particle optics
  
• Wave optics: Maxwell’s equations, planewaves, reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction
  
• Light–matter interactions: Dispersion of optical materials (Lorentz model), absorption, emission
  
• Geometrical optics: paraxial approximation, lenses, mirror, prism
  
• Optical instruments: basics of human vision, microscopes, telescopes and imaging systems
  

Complementary knowledge:

• Polarization: linear, circular, elliptical
  
• Light sources: stimulated emission, LED and laser
  
• Numerical analysis of propagating waves
  

Special knowledge:

• Coherence of light