Introduction to wave optics:
Scattering, dispersion of refractive index, reflection, refraction through flat and curved surfaces.
Mirrors, lenses, properties, and errors.
Optical instruments (the eye, magnifying lens, microscope, and telescope).
Polarization of light: birefringence, polarizers, retarders, space and time coherence.
Five laboratory exercises:
Interference and diffraction (slits, diffraction gratings, delay plates).
Optical Fourier transformations.
Interferometry (Michelson, Fabry-Perot).
Optical information transfer.
Holography.
- Teacher: Αθανάσιος Κόντος
ECTS : 5
Language : el