Optics

PHYS2401 Modern Physics

4 hours One requisite

1 Aberrations / Types of aberrations and correction of aberrations

2 Interference / 1- Young double slit / 2- Double beam experiments / 3- General conditions of interference / 4- Superposition and Michelson interferometer / 5- Plane parallel plates / 6- Fabry - Perot interferometer and Newtons rings

3 Fourier analysis for physical optics / 1- Fraunhofer diffraction / 2- Fraunhofer diffraction by a single slit (by integration methods) / 3- Diffraction maxima and half width for single slit / 4- Fraunhofer diffraction by circular slit (by integration methods) / 5- Airy disk and Rayleigh`s criterion / 6- Fresnel diffraction and Fresnel integrals (by integration methods) / 7- Cornu spiral, Fresnel diffraction on single slit. / 8- Huygens principle

4 Diffraction grating / 1- One dimension gratings. / 2- Grating equation and angular dispersion. / 3- Chromatic resolving power. / 4- Two dimension grating. / 5- X ray diffraction and Bragg’s law

5 Fourier optics / 1. Basic rules for Fourier transform. / 2. Spatial filtering. / 3. Diffraction theory of image formation in the microscope / 4. Optical image processing

6 Polarization / 1. Types of polarized light / 2. Production of polarized / 3. Optical active phenomena / 4. Polarization caused by electric and magnetic fields

7 PRACTICAL PART / Students will conduct various experiments in the practical part of the / course. Each student will perform the experiment, collect data, extract / result, and prepare a written report every week

1.1 Mapped to: K1

Describe the type of aberrations.