Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
7 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
63h
Description
This course is a continuation of the courses on electromagnetism and waves given in L2.
Objectives
To reinforce the mastery of the wave theory of light: propagation, interference, diffraction.
Understand and solve Maxwell's equations in material media in order to model different phenomena of propagation, guidance, diffraction and scattering of electromagnetic radiation.
Necessary pre-requisites
Oscillations and waves, differential and integral calculus, electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electromagnetism in vacuum
Knowledge control
100% CT
Syllabus
Wave optics
- Two-wave interference, temporal and spatial coherence, multi-wave interference
- Huygens-Fresnel principle, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
- Networks and spectroscopy
- Fourier optics (spatial filtering, strioscopy)
- Gaussian propagation
Electrodynamics of media
- Polarization and magnetization of matter: introduction of macroscopic fields.
- Theory of the dielectric constant, Drude and Lorentz models,
- Maxwell's equations in matter, potentials, gauges...
- introduction to the optics of anisotropic media
- Electromagnetic energy
- Propagation of wave packets, guiding, scattering
Additional information
CM : 31.5 h
TD : 31.5 h