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Material for the subject OPTICS (Universidad de Zaragoza)

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Degree in Physics

Faculty of Sciences.

Academic year 2023-2024

The course will include Python examples on the course topics:

• Topic 1. Basic properties: wave optics and geometrical optics, diffraction phenomena, coherence and interferences.
  • Fraunhofer Diffraction: circular aperture
  • Fraunhofer Diffraction: rectangular aperture
  • Coherence and interference phenomena
  • Fermat's principle, Lagrangian optics and the ray equation
• Topic 2. Basic light-matter interaction phenomena. Light sources.
• Topic 3. Light detectors.
• Topic 4. Radiometry, photometry and colorimetry.
  • Colorimetry examples
• Topic 5. Anisotropic media. Electro-optical and magneto-optical effects.
• Topic 6. Polarization and related devices.
• Topic 7. Optical imaging.
  • Gauss law
• Topic 8. Optical instruments.
• Topic 9. Optical metrology: diffraction gratings, interferometers.
  • Diffraction from a slit array
  • Michelson interferometer
  • Fourier transform interferometry
  • Fabry-Perot resonances

The repository written by Sergio Gutiérrez Rodrigo. Distributed under License Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.