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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
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Name Day Hours Building/Room E-mail Prof. David Golomb By appointment M6/427 golomb@bgu.ac.il Yotam Sherf By appointment online sherfyo@post.bgu.ac.il Lecture/Tutorial
Group What? Name Day Hours Building/Room 1 Lecture Prof. David Golomb Thursday 13:10-16:00- online 11 TA Yotam Sherf Wednesday 13:00-15:00 97/206 Lecture, Tutorial and office hours
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