Applied Coherent Optics

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: