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PHYS261-Atomic Physics and Physical Optics.
Outline of the Course - Physical
Optics part
Study materials:
There will be distributed
detailed notes during the
lecture
period (for both parts).
References to other
books and texts will be given throughout the lectures.
It is not necessary to purchase
a specific book.
Exam:
The examination is oral and will take place in the first part of
December. The precise date will be agreed on,
depending on the needs of
the students.
- Maxwell’s Equations
- Linearity and Superposition Principle
- Phase Velocity and Group Velocity
- Pulse Propagation in a Dispersive Medium
- Harmonic Plane Waves - Polarisation
- Reflection and refraction of a plane wave
- Generalisation of the reflection law and Snell’s law
- Reflectance and transmittance
- Unpolarised light (natural light)
- Rotation of the plane of polarisation upon reflection and
refraction
- Boundary Value Problems
- Rayleigh-Sommerfeld’s and Kirchhoff’s diffraction integrals
- Diffraction problems
- Fresnel diffraction
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Circular aperture
- Rectangular aperture
- Focusing and imaging
- Electromagnetic radiation problems
- Field radiated by a localised source
- Field due to a point source - Green’s function
- Field radiated by a dipole
- Retarded solution of the wave equation
- Asymptotic diffraction theory
L. Kocbach,
ladi@post.ift.uib.no