Aim
The course teaches the basic principles of optics and gives practical knowledge on optical design, with the help of a ray tracing program.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• have a good knowledge of optics that allows him/her to design and build industrial optical applications.

• be able to understand why and when a given optical problem can be solved with ray optics, wave optics or electromagnetic optics.

• be able to understand important concepts such as polarization, diffraction, interferometry, holography.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to do alignments and measurements in optics.

• be able to calculate propagation of light through optical components.

• be able to perform optical designs.

• be able to search and acquire knowledge from references within the field.

• have an increased competence in presenting in writing and orally an accomplished project.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents

• Ray optics, including matrix-formulation

• Wave optics

• Fourier Optics

• Electromagnetic optics

• Polarization

A project with ray tracing.

Literature
Fundamental of Photonics
B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich
Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics, John Wiley & sons, inc. Second edition
Chap 1,2,4,5,6