LF00EE08 Photonics and Optics Fundamentals (4 cr)
Cooperation network course
Network: LUT-UEF Collaboration in Engineering Education
Network: FysNet - Physics Education Network
Available for: Doctoral studies, Master's students, Bachelor's students and Bachelor's and Master's students
This course is offered through the Network for FYSNET. These studies are available for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree students studying in the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and the Faculty of Information Technology.
Description
- Introduction
- Waves
- Electromagnetic waves
- Light in homogeneous material
- Reflection and refraction
- Interference
- Diffraction
- Geometrical optics
- Imaging
The course material is available in Moodle.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to
• Understand the importance of light and photonics
• Understands the nature of light as waves and photons.
• Understands the polarization of light.
• Understands how one can control the polarization of light with different components.
• Understands emission, absorption, and scattering of light.
• Understands reflection and refraction of light
• Can calculate the direction and the magnitude of reflected and refracted light for a planar interface.
• Understands the interference of light.
• Understands the double-slit experiment.
• Understands the principle of and interferometer.
• Can calculate the directions of the diffraction orders after the diffraction grating.
• Can calculate the field after a simple aperture system.
• Understands the connection between the geometrical and wave approach of light propagation.
• Can analyze light in simple optical components like lenses and mirrors.
• Understands imaging in a simple optical system.
• Can calculate imaging in a simple lens or mirror system.
• Understands how one can characterize the quality of imaging.
• Knows what are the aberrations in an imaging system.
Additional information
Available online (remotely) through entire year.
Exam visits in another university's Exam room are possible.
Description of prerequisites
The students are assumed to know the following when coming into the course:
- Basics of mechanics like energy, potential, and momentum.
- Basics of linear algebra and matrices.
- Basics of electromagnetism.
- Basic calculation with complex numbers and complex functions.
- Basics of differential and integral calculation.
- Basics of trigonometry.
- Vectors and calculations with those.
- Also it is helpful to understand the basics of quantum mechanics like the quantization of energy.
In the course material in Moodle one can find more detailed description of the prerequisites. Moreover, there is material the student can use to update the knowledge on those topics.