Optical Systems and Beam Propagation, 5 op

Core content

• Polarization of light and polarization effects in optical materials and polarization-altering devices
  
• Jones, Stokes, and Mueller formalism
• Thick lenses and optical systems
• Image formation via ray tracing, lens equations, and ABCD matrix formalism
  
• Gaussian beams, parameters and their propagation in optical systems
  
• ABCD Propagation Law for Gaussian beams
  
• Passive optical resonators, stability condition, symmetric resonators
  
• Third-order (Seidel) monochromatic aberrations
• Chromatic aberrations