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Course Catalog 1999/2000


Mechanical Engineering

MTF059 Optics 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q III

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Karl-Evert Fällström 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: U, 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS

Laboratory work 0.00ECTS
Written exam 6.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
F. L. Pedrotti & L. S. Pedrotti: Introduction to Optics, Prentice-Hall international edition, 1993/1996.
ISBN 0-13-016973-0
Laboratory instrucions, in Swedish, LTU.

REMARKS
This course can not be combined with the course MTF054 Physical Optics.



Further information: International Office


Valid for the academic year 1999/2000.

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