Unit ADVANCED OPTICS AND INTERFEROMETRY
- Course
- Optics and optometry
- Study-unit Code
- A002467
- Location
- TERNI
- Curriculum
- Ottica avanzata
- Teacher
- Mateusz Bawaj
- Teachers
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- Mateusz Bawaj
- Hours
- 78 ore - Mateusz Bawaj
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Sperimentale e applicativo
- Academic discipline
- FIS/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- INGLESE
- Contents
- In the introduction of the course we discuss electromagnetic waves superposition and polarization. The main part of the course contains wave optics putting stress on interference and diffraction arguments. Basic notions allow discussion on interferometry, its principal characteristics and applications. Furthermore, we discuss diffraction and coherence phenomena. This step enables introduction of experimental techniques based on interferometry used in science as well as in industrial and biomedical imagining.
- Reference texts
- Notes provided by the teacher.
- Educational objectives
- The first objective of the course is to explain the interaction of light with matter besides the light detection. In its second part, the course develops skills in physics of experimental interferometry. The course provides knowledge specific to scientific, industrial and biomedical application of interferometry what improves understanding of these techniques. In particular, during the course students get familiar with measurement and imagining techniques based on interferometry like: Michelson interferometer, optical coherence tomography (OCT), diffuse optical tomography (DOT) or angle-resolved low-coherence interferometry (a/LCI).
- Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- The course is articulated in
1) Theoretical lessons
2) Laboratory activities - Learning verification modality
- Oral test to ascertain: i) the ability to understand the theoretical contents of the course (Dublin descriptor 1), ii) the ability to expose and correctly apply theoretical knowledge (Dublin descriptor 2), iii) Ability to autonomously formulate appropriate judgments and observations on possible alternative model (Dublin descriptor 3), iv) the ability in effective and pertinent written communication (Dublin 4 descriptor).
- Extended program
- In the introduction of the course we discuss electromagnetic waves superposition and polarization. The main part of the course contains wave optics putting stress on interference and diffraction arguments. Basic notions allow discussion on interferometry, its principal characteristics and applications. Furthermore, we discuss diffraction and coherence phenomena. This step enables introduction of experimental techniques based on interferometry used in science as well as in industrial and biomedical imagining.