Advanced Physical Optics
Academic Study Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Teaching language: English
EKA: T470017102
Censorship: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Spring
Level: Master
Course ID: T470017101
ECTS value: 10
Date of Approval: 22-09-2022
Duration: 1 semester
Version: Approved - active
Course ID
Course Title
ECTS value
10
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Responsible study board
Date of Approval
Course Responsible
| Name | Department | |
|---|---|---|
| Pia Friis Kristensen | piakr@tek.sdu.dk | TEK Uddannelseskoordinering og -support |
| Rene Lynge Eriksen | rle@mci.sdu.dk | Mads Clausen Instituttet (MCI) |
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Mandatory prerequisites
Learning objectives - Knowledge
The student must acquire knowledge on:
- Far (Fraunhofer) and near (Fresnel) field diffraction of light and their validity domains.
- Fourier optics applications to light diffraction by gratings and image formation.
- Temporal and spatial coherence of light and their characterization.
- Polarization optics anisotropic crystals, index ellipsoid, birefringence and wawe plates.
- Fundamentals of nonlinear optics: harmonics generation and modulation of light.
- Optical second-harmonic generation and phase conjugation.
- Electrooptic and acousto-optic effects.
- Fundamentals of fiber optics: mode propagation and dispersion, optical signal distortion.
- Detection of optical radiation: detector configurations and characteristics.
Learning objectives - Skills
The student must be able to:
- Calculate far-field intensity distributions for light diffraction by amplitude and phase gratings
- Calculate intensity patterns for Fresnel diffraction of light by slit apertures.
- Maximize the second-harmonic generation by adjusting the crystal orientation
- Realize and characterize the acousto-optic modulation of light.
- Operate with spatial light modulators, generating diffraction gratings and Fresnel zone plates.
- Characterize temporal coherence of various light sources.
- Use ellipsometry for thin film characterization.
- Realize efficient Laser light coupling to single-mode fibers.
- Estimate fundamental signal-to-noise ratios for optical detectors.
Learning objectives - Competences
The student must be able to:
- Design an optical system, containing various optical components (such as lenses, polarizers, wave plates, spatial light modulators), in order to realize a desirable optical beam transformation (for example, by use of computer generated holograms) at the output of the system to be used for further optical processing (for example, coupling into optical fibers or photonic waveguide components).
- Conduct optical experiments involving selection of the appropriate coherent (e.g., laser) and incoherent (e.g., thermal) sources of radiation and implementation of polarization transformation, modulation and detection of electromagnetic radiation.
- Understand main engineering ideas in current developments within modern optical technologies, relating these ideas to the fundamental principles presented in theoretical and experimental topics of this course.
Content
The main purpose of the course is to prepare a student to operate with theoretical and practical topics within the classical
optics with elements of modern optics.
- Rigorous description of diffraction (Fraunhofer and Fresnel).
- Selected topics from Fourier optics, including Fourier analysis.
- Light polarization and polarization transformation in various optical systems, optical crystals.
- Ellipsometry.
- Temporal and spatial coherence, including coherent versus incoherent light.
- Higher harmonic generation and optical phase conjugation.
- Electrooptic and acousto-optic phenomena.
- Elements of integrated optics.
- Fundamental nonlinear phenomena in optical materials and modulation of light, including practical applications.
- Elements of fibre optics.
- Optical detectors.
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Teaching Method
Lectures, problem solving, and laboratory exercises.
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Examination regulations
Exam regulations
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Exam regulations
Examination is held
In the end of the semester.
Tests
Exam
EKA
T470017102
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Exam
Description
Examination:
Individual oral exam.
Examination conditions:
Laboratory exercises associated with the course should be carried out and documented during the semester in order to gain access to the examination.
Form of examination
Oral examination
Censorship
Second examiner: Internal
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card - Date of birth
Language
English
ECTS value
10
Additional exam information
The form of examination in the re-examination is the same as in the ordinary examination.
Courses offered
| Offer period | Offer type | Profile | Education | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Mandatory | MSc in Physics and Technology, 2023 | Master of Science in Engineering (Physics and Technology) | Odense | 2 |
| Spring 2025 | Mandatory | MSc in Physics and Technology, Odense, 2024 | Master of Science in Engineering (Physics and Technology) | Odense | 2 |
| Spring 2025 | Exchange students |