| Code: | F O02 |
| Department: | Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics |
| Course director: | Zoltán Horváth, Miklós Erdélyi |
| Credits: | 2 |
| Semester: | not fixed |
| Hours/week: | 2+0 |
| Prerequisities: | Waves and Optics, Electrodynamics |
| Type of assessment: | K or B |
Course description:
Historical introduction, Huygens-Fresnel
principle, Young's principle. Mathematical preliminaries, Kirchhoff formulation
of diffraction, Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulation of diffraction. Fresnel
and Fraunhofer diffraction. Fourier transform, angular spectrum. Examples
of diffraction patterns: rectangular aperture, circular aperture, diffraction
grating, diffraction at straight edge. Fourier tranforming and imaging
properties of lenses. Three-dimensional intensity distribution near focus.
Boundary diffraction wave
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