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MTF059 Optics 6.0 ECTS credits

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TIMEPERIOD: Q III

LANGUAGE: English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Lars Benckert Univ lekt

PREREQUISITES
One of MAM039 - 048.

COURSE AIM
The course will give the student a knowledge of geometrical optics, optical instrumentation and physical optics and applications of optics in modern engineering.

CONTENTS
Foundation of geometrical optics. Imaging by lenses and systems of lenses. Matrix methods for construction and analysis of lens systems. Aberrations and simple means to reduce them. Cameras, microscopes, telescopes and other optical instruments. Computer methods to design, analyze and optimise optical systems. Optical instruments, computer and laboratory work. Interference of light. Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. Polarisation. Birefringence. Interferometry, holography and other applications. Measurement by optical techniques.

TEACHING
Lectures, demonstrations and laboratory work.

EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE: 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS


Laboratory work                                             	0.0ECTS
Written exam                                                	6.0ECTS

COURSE LITTERATURE
F L Pedrotti & L S Pedrotti: Introduction to Optics, Prentice-Hall international edition, 1993. ISBN 0-13-016973-0 Laboratory instrucions, in Swedish, HLu.

REMARKS
This course can not be combined with the course MTF054 Physical Optics. Lectures may be given in English.
Last modified : 97-12-02
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