Optics

This lecture provides an introduction to modern optics as an elective in the bachelor program. The propagation of light and its interaction with optical components will be described on different levels: as a beam, as a wave, in Fourier space, as a solution to Maxwell's equations, or as a photon. This will give you the tools to understand, set up and conduct current optical and spectroscopic experiments, which we will also do in practice.

Lecture Notes 'Optics'
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Content

Rays and beams 

• 1 Ray optics
  
• 2 Gaussian Beams
  

Fourier optics

• 3 Fourier Optics
  

Light in matter

• 4 Dielectric Materials
  
• 5 Polarization and anisotropic media
  

Interference and Coherence

• 6 Interference
  
• 7 Coherence
  

Quantum optics

• 8 Quantum Optics
  

Appendix

• A  Fourier transformation
  
• B  Numerical Fourier Transformation