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2024/2025
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Applied Coherent Optics

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Code Completion Credits Range
W36OZ002 ZK 52P+26C
Course guarantor:
Josef Zicha
Lecturer:
Šárka Němcová, Josef Zicha
Tutor:
Šárka Němcová, Josef Zicha
Supervisor:
Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Synopsis:

The lectures have an aim to extend the knowledge in the field of wave optics and its application in measurement instruments, industry and medicin applications.

Content:

Application of polarization effects, diffraction, scattering, birefringence and non-linear effects in metrology. Functional principles of lasers and its application.

Requirements:
Syllabus of lectures:

Time and spatial coherence, mutual coherence of sources.

Fourier spectroscopy and Fourier optics.

Crystal optics.

Polarization - Jones and Mueller count.

Rayleigh scattering.

Raman spectrometry.

Lasers radiation generation; fibers, semiconductors, tunable lasers.

2nd harmonics generation, Q-switch, Pockels cell.

Next monochromatisation of the laser beam.

Syllabus of tutorials:
Study Objective:
Study materials:

K. Thyagarajan, A.K. Ghatak, Lasers - theory and applications

B.E.A. Saleh, M.C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics

Smith W. J.: Modern Optical Engineering, SPIE Press, 2008, ISBN-10: 0071476873

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
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The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-04-02
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