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12753 Experimental Techniques in Optics - Five-year degree in Physics

Center

Faculty of Physics

Departament

Optics and Optometry and Vision Sciences

Lecturers in charge

H3372 - GENARO SAAVEDRA TORTOSA

Met. Docent

METHODOLOGY

Assessment: A) 30% written exam on the theoretical contents of the course. B) 70% coursework during the laboratory sessions.

Met. Avaluació

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Bibliografia

F.A. Jenkins y H.E. White, Fundamentos de Óptica (Aguilar, 1964).

M. Martínez Corral, W.D. Furlan, A. Pons Martí y G. Saavedra, Instrumentos ópticos y optométricos. Teoría y prácticas (Universitat de València, 1998).

R. Guenther, Modern Optics (J. Wiley, 1990).

R.S. Longhurst, Geometrical and Physical Optics (Longman, 1973).

E. Hecht y A. Zajac, Óptica (Addison-Wesley Iberoamericana, 1986).

M.V. Klein y T.E. Furtak, Optics (J. Wiley, 1986).

B.E.A. Saleh y M.C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (J. Wiley, 1991).

J. Wilson y J.F.B. Hawkes, Optoelectronics. An Introduction (Prentice Hall, 1989).

P.W. Milonni y J.H. Eberly, Lasers (J. Wiley, 1988).

A.E. Siegman, Lasers (University Science Books, 1986).

Continguts

CONTENTS
Lesson 1. EXPERIMENTS IN OPTICS
Lesson 2. RAY LIMITATION IN OPTIC SYSTEMS
Lesson 3. OPTIC INSTRUMENTS
Lesson 4. SOURCES OF RADIATION BY SPONTANEOUS EMISSION
Lesson 5. SOURCES OF RADIATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION. LASER

Practical Programme
LABORATORY PRACTICES
First block:
* Measure of focal distance in compound systems and thin lenses.
* Cardinal elements of an optic system.
* Optic prism: angular deviation and chromatic dispersion.
* Aberrations in an optic system.
* Optic instruments.
* Simple and compound microscope.
* Microscope. Applications in metrology.
* Telescopic systems.
* Measure of the refraction index gradient in a stratified medium.

Second block:
* Polarization.
* Experiences with lineally polarized light. Law of Malus. Brewster angle.
* Characterization of an elliptic light. Stokes parameters .
* Interferences due to the wavefront division: Young fringes.
* Young double slit.
* Fresnel biprism.
* Young fringes with polarized light. Wollaston prism.
* Interferences due to division of amplitude: Michelson interferometer
* Measure of the air refraction index.
* Net spectroscopy.
* Introduction to diffraction.

The practices will be carried out by teams of two students each, but both students should understand the operation individually. Each student will do