Dr. Julijana Velevska, Professor
Dr. Elena Vckova Bebekovska, Assistant
Course content:
Light as an electromagnetic wave.
Methods for determining the speed of light.
Geometrical optics.
Lenses.
Optical instruments: magnifying glass, microscope, eyepiece, and telescope.
The eye as an optical instrument.
Photometry.
Interference of light, interferometers and their application.
Diffraction of light. Fresnel diffraction.
Fraunhofer diffraction and diffraction gratings.
Abe's theory of diffraction.
Polarization and its types.
Rotation of the plane of polarization.
Crystal optics.
Artificial anisotropy.
Electro-optic effects.
Fundamentals of holography.
Lasers.