Optical Physics SK2300+2301 6+3 Hp

During 2014, the course will be given by Katia Gallo (gallo[at]kth.se) and Anna Burvall (anna.burvall[at]biox.kth.se). Jakob Larsson (jakob.larsson[at]biox.kth.se) will give the calculation sessions.

The contents of the course homepage are continuously being moved to KTH Social at https://www.kth.se/social/course/SK2300/, where all the necessary material will be available by September 2014.

You are welcome to the course in Optical Physics.

This course is a continuation of lower grade wave courses, an application of Theoretical Electronics and an explanation of many experiments and phenomena found in other courses.

The general topics are:

�� Geometrical optics

�� Diffraction

�� Interference

�� Polarization

�� Coherence

Recommended book: Hecht: Optics, Pearson Education.

Examination

The exam is written and consists of six tasks which mostly require combination of knowledge from different chapters. The book, notes, old exams, calculator (not computer because of Wlan risque) and a handbook of your choice is recommended aid on the exam.

Points	Grade
5,0 - 6,0	A
4,1 - 4,9	B
3,5 - 4,0	C
2,8 - 3,4	D
2,2 - 2,7	Can be completed to E within 8 weeks from exam
0,0 - 2,1	F, Fail

Teachers

Lectures:	Göran Manneberg	Mabego@kth.se	Tel: 5537 8127
Calculation exercises:	Ulf Lundström	Ulflund.kth.se	Tel: 5537 8831

Calculation exercise aids

Calculation exercise	Summary	Tasks	Solution guides	Matlab code
1	OP1.pdf OP1.tex	Session 1.pdf	930402-5 940824-2	PhaseVelocity.m
2	OP2.pdf OP2.tex	Session 2.pdf
3	OP3.pdf OP3.tex	Session 3.pdf
4	OP4.pdf OP4.tex	Session 4.pdf		T930825U5.m T940406U2.m
5	OP5.pdf OP5.tex	Session 5.pdf		T950301U1.m
6	OP6.pdf OP6.tex	Session 6.pdf		T930402U4.m
7 - 8	OP7-8.pdf OP7-8.tex	Session 7.pdf		T031024U3.m T031024U5.m T940824U4.m
9				T021018U5.m T021018U6.m

Laborations

The lab instruction should be downloaded and studied before the actual lab time.

1. Principal planes

2. Microscopy

3. Michelson interferometer

4. Fourier optics
Examples of Fourier optics in Matlab: FourierLabCircles.m, FourierLabGratings.m, FourierLabFiltering.m

What happens after this course?

The continuation course starts week 38 and is an optical design task. We perform an introduction to the program Winlens for those who wish. You can download the program from the company Linos' homepage. Chose the free version 4.3 and do not forget the instruction text.