Introductory Seminar on Optics - NOFY010
Title: Proseminář z optiky
Form of teaching: seminar
Guaranteed by: Laboratory of General Physics Education (32-KVOF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2026
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences: critical thinking, data literacy
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3739
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Petr Malý, DrSc.
prof. Ing. Jan Franc, DrSc.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Pavel Malý, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Petr Malý, DrSc.
Classification: Physics > General Subjects
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Annotation -
The seminar is closely connected and coordinated with the lecture OFY022. It provides detailed discussion of selected topics of the lecture Physics III, OFY022.
Last update: T_KVOF (16.05.2003)
Aim of the course -

The seminar is closely connected and coordinated with the lecture OFY022.

It provides detailed discussion of selected topics of the lecture Optics, OFY022.

Last update: Malý Petr, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (28.08.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Podmínkou udělení zápočtu je účast na prosemináři (maximálně 4 absence během semestru) a odevzdání řešení aspoň jedné úlohy, kterou si student vybere ze souboru úloh zveřejněného ke konci semestru.

V případě 5-7 absencí je podmínkou udělení zápočtu odevzdání řešení 4 úloh a jejich prezentace garantovi předmětu.

Last update: Malý Petr, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (28.08.2026)
Literature - Czech

M. Born, E. Wolf: Principles of Optics, Pergamon Press, Oxford 1980

F.L. Pedrotti, L.S. Pedrotti: Introduction to Optics, Prentice-Hall Internat. 1993

Last update: Malý Petr, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (10.05.2005)
Teaching methods - Czech

seminář

Last update: Zázvorka Jakub, RNDr., Ph.D. (17.09.2021)
Syllabus -

The syllabus of Pro-seminar includes:

The human eye and light detectors, Matrix description of polarization of light, Matrix description of paraxial geometrical optics, Negative index of refraction, Optics of thin films, Optical pulse - Fast and slow light, Light beams, Diffraction integral, Coherence of light, Photons and quantum properties of light, Nonlinear optics, Single molecular spectroscopy, Light in Nature.

Last update: Malý Petr, prof. RNDr., DrSc. (28.08.2026)