Advanced Optics
Tobias Kampfrath
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Advanced optics: summary
Light is ubiquitous in daily life and a powerful tool in natural sciences. This lecture course will provide an introduction into the principles and applications of modern optics. Questions that will be addressed are for example: What are light waves, light rays and surface plasmon polaritons? How can we describe light propagation in matter? Why are evanescent waves useful in touch pads? What is the diffraction limit in microscopy and how can it be overcome? How can ultrashort laser pulses take movies of the vibration of molecules and precession of spins?
A rough outline of the lecture course is as follows:
- Maxwell equations, light-matter interaction, wave optics
- Plane waves: reflection, refraction, polarization
- Light beams: diffraction limit, Fourier optics, Gaussian beams
- Femtosecond lasers and nonlinear optics
In the exercises, the course topics will be illustrated by practical examples, both analytical and numerical using the Python package.
Useful literature, but not mandatory:
L. Novotny, B. Hecht: Principles of Nano-Optics, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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