About the course - General
General
General
Topics
Topics
Course Schedule
Week Topic Additional reading 1 Background, Maxwell's equations, Waves, Poynting vector, Light in Matter: The response of dielectric materials. Hecht 32 Electromagnetic (E-M) theory of waves at a dielectric interface.
Hecht 4 3 Optical properties of metals.
Hecht 4 4 Refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses.
Hecht 5 5 Lenses, mirrors, prisms, fiber optics. Hecht 5 6 Geometric Optics of thick lenses and Matrix methods.
Hecht 6 7 Superposition of electromagnetic (E-M) Waves, Polarization of light.
Hecht 7 8 Birefringence: Anisotropies in the index of refraction.
Hecht 8 9 Interference.
Hecht 9 10 Fraunhofer (far-field) diffraction. Hecht 10 11 Fresnel (Near-Field) Diffraction, Kirchhoff’s scalar diffraction theory.
Hecht 10 12 Fourier optics, Spectra and correlation, Transfer functions, Basics of coherence theory, Visibility, The mutual coherence function and the degree of coherence. Hecht 11 13 Introduction to vision: the eye and the brain distribution function
Topics
Textbooks
Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Office hours
Name Day Hours Building/Room E-mail Prof. Maoz Shamir By appointment by appointmen M6/429 shmaoz@bgu.ac.il Mr. Gabi Socolovsky Monday 11:00-13:00 M6/420 gabisoco@post.bgu.ac.il Lecture/Tutorial
Group What? Name Day Hours Building/Room 1 Lecture Prof. Maoz Shamir Thursday 13:00-16:00 28/106 11 TA Mr. Gabi Socolovsky Monday 16:00-18:00 97/206 Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
Course policy
Course policy
Home assignments: 11 out of 13 home exercises must be submitted.
Exercises will be checked and graded sporadically
Grading:
* final exam - 80%.
* exercise grades 20%
Course policy
Lecture 1
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Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lectrue 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Material for exams