To give the student a frame work to address specific problems in optics using numerical tools.

Applications within optics using different approximations of Maxwell´s equations will be covered with a specific focus on numerical methods and digital optics. Examples include geometrical optics and ray-tracing, Physical and statistical optics inluding spectral methods, near-field optics, scattering, speckles and the phase determination, optical fibres, quasi-classical detection of light. Inverse problems will also be covered.

Lectures, computer exercises and a project. The focus will be on individual work on the computer exercises and the project.

Hand-in problems and project presentation both written and orally.

The course is given in English if reguested.

Mikael Sjödahl

Classical optics and its Applications,Masud Mansuripur(Cambridge University Press, 2002,Cambridge UK ). ISBN 0 521 80499 X.

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Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics

The syllabus was established by the Department of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering 2007-02-28, and remains valid from autumn 2007.

The syllabus was established by the Department of Applied Physics and Mechanical Engineering 2007-02-28, and remains valid from autumn 2007.