Optics - 2AMPH250
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Goals
Being able to calculate the position of real or virtual images and also their characteristics for a centered optical system. Being able to do ray tracing for centered optical systems.
Understand the concepts of light waves and optical intensity. Understand the concepts of interference and diffraction. Being able to calculate the optical intensity of an interference pattern produced by an interferometer. Being able to calculate the light intensity in a plane located at infinity after diffraction caused by a circular or rectangular aperture.
Being able to use the different theories of optics and to use them appropriately.
Content - Introduction
- Geometrical Optics
- Fermat's principle
- Reflection law
- Refraction law
- Refraction on a spherical surface
- Gauss' approximation
- Matrix modelization of a lens
- Thin lenses
- Examples of centered optical systems:
- Microscope
- Refracting Telescope
- Wave optics
- Notions of waves
- Fraunhofer Diffraction
- Interference
- Of two plane waves
- Of two spherical waves
- Interferometers:
- Glass plate
- Michelson
- Mach-Zenhder
- Fabry-Perot interferometer
Prerequisites- Knowledge of geometry;
- Knowledge matrix algebra;
- Knowledge of complex numbers;
- Knowledge of integral calculus.
Tests Mid-terms exam (EXAM1) : written exam, 1,5 hour long without documentation, calculator accepted
Final exam (EXAM2): written exam, 1,5 hour long without documentation, calculator accepted
Additional Information Course ID : 2AMPH250
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Bibliography - Chartier, G., "Manuel d'optique", Hermès, 1997
- Guenther, R., "Modern Optics", John Wiley & Sons, 1990
- Pérez, J. Ph., "Optique géométrique et ondulatoire", 5ème éd., Masson, 1996
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Date of update June 25, 2015