Optics from Beginner to Expert - The Physics of Light

Descripción

This course is for everyone who wants to learn about optics: Beginners to experts! A bit of high school mathematics (trigonometry, equations) is all you need to know to get started! The fundamental question of optics is: 'What is light?' Is light a ray or a beam that can be fully described by geometry? Is light a wave that can interfere with other waves and can bend around corners? Does light consist of particles that have an energy and a momentum just like electrons or even macroscopic objects like a football? Here, we will discuss all of these approaches based on theory and experiments. I can guarantee that you will learn a lot no matter what your current skill level is. For advanced students: The later lectures about wave and quantum optics are on a university level. You are kindly invited to join this carefully prepared course in which we derive the following concepts from scratch. I will present examples and have prepared quizzes and exercises for all topics. Geometrical optics (3 hours) • Reflection & Mirrors • Refraction & Lenses • Applications: Eye, Microscope & Telescope Wave optics (or physical optics) (8.5 hours) • Experiments & Phenomenological description (incl. introduction about derivatives and differential equations) • Diffraction, interference & Polarization • Theory based on Maxwell’s equations (incl. introduction to complex numbers) • Electromagnetic waves in matter: Derivation of the Fresnel equations & Complex refractive indices Quantum optics (4.5 hours) • Photons: Quantum description of light (Photoelectric effect, Compton effect) • Applications: LASER & Solar cell • Introduction to quantum mechanics Outlook: Modern optics phenomena Why me? My name is Börge Göbel and I am a postdoc working as a scientist in theoretical physics. Therefore, I use presented concepts very often but I have not forgotten the time when I learned about it and still remember the problems that I and other students had. I have refined my advisor skills as a tutor of Bachelor, Master and PhD students in theoretical physics and have other successful courses here on Udemy. I hope you are excited and I kindly welcome you to our course!

Lo que aprenderás

• Geometrical optics: Reflection & Refraction for understanding Mirrors & Lenses
• Wave optics: Diffraction, Interference & Polarization of light as a wave explained by Huygens' principle & Electrodynamics
• Quantum optics: Energy, Momentum & Spin of light as photons
• Famous experiments: Double-slit experiment, Photoelectric effect, Compton effect & many more
• Solar cells & LASER as modern light technologies
• Mathematical descriptions and derivations: From Maxwell's equations to Fresnel equations
• Exercises and applications of cool phenomena like Birefringence & Dichroism
• Modern optics phenomena like Holography & Fourier optics

Requisitos

• Basic mathematics
• Recommended: What are derivatives and vectors?