LF:BOFO0232p Physical Optics II-lec. - Course Information
BOFO0232p Physical Optics II - lecture
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Ivan Ohlídal, DrSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Ivan Ohlídal, DrSc.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Lenka Herníková
Supplier department: Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites
- BOFO0131p Physical Optics I-lec.
Students must pass the lecture BOFO0131p - Physical Optics I before visiting this lecture. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-OPOP)
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-SZ) (2)
- Course objectives
- This lecture is the continuing course for the foregoing lecture BOFO0131p - Physical Optics I. It performs an extension of pieces of knowledge obtained by students in the lecture BOFO0131p. The aims of this lecture are as follows:
1) Education of the students in understanding new pieces of knowledge of Physical Optics presented in this lecture by means of simple mathematical procedures and formulae, i.e. educating them on the basis of quantitative approaches.
2) Using presentation of suitable experiments to understand a connection between theoretical conclusions achieved and experimental practice.
3) Explanation of employing the pieces of knowledge obtained within this lecture in practical optometry. - Learning outcomes
- This lecture is the continuing course for the foregoing lecture BOFO0131p - Physical Optics I. It performs an extension of pieces of knowledge obtained by students in the lecture BOFO0131p.
- Syllabus
- 1) Diffraction of light: Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction.
- 2) Examples of light diffraction: diffraction on a sharp edge, pinholes of various simple forms, circular piece and linear grating.
- 3) Understanding of a resolution of simple instruments: resolution of microscope and telescope.
- 4) Principles of elementary theory of coherence: temporal and spatial coherence.
- 5) Influence of light coherence on interference and diffraction.
- 6) Principles of propagation of light in non-absorbing anisotropic media, birefringence.
- 7) Bases of optics of non-absorbing uniaxial anisotropic crystals: ordinary and extraordinary waves and their properties, Snell's law for the plane boundary between non-absorbing isotropic and non-absorbing anisotropic media.
- 8) Application of non-absorbing uniaxial crystals in practice: polarization prisms (Nicol's prism, Glan-Thompson's prism), compensators as elements influencing polarization states of light waves (Babinet's nad Babinet-Soleil's compensators).
- 9) Artificial birefringence.
- 10) Optical activity, phenomenological description of optical activity.
- 11) Interference of polarized waves by means of uniaxial crystal plates, principles of photoelasticimetry.
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- written test (minimu of 40 points)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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