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Optics of Thin Films and Multilayers - NOOE011

Title:	Optika tenkých vrstev a vrstevnatých struktur
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Physics of Charles University (32-FUUK)
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual:	from 2007
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	3
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	prof. Ing. Štefan Višňovský, DrSc.
Teacher(s):	prof. Ing. Štefan Višňovský, DrSc.
Classification:	Physics > Optics and Optoelectronics

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Annotation -

Electromagnetic wave interactions in a isotropic layer deposited on an isotropic substrate Effect of the incident polarization. Reflection and transmission coefficients. Effect of absorption. Relations between material tensors and optical characteristics. Generalized ellipsometry. Effect of interfaces in multilayers. Effect of optical anisotropy in layered systems. Fraunhofer diffraction in laterally structured anisotropic multilayers. Nonideal layered structures. Effective medium approximation.

Last update: Višňovský Štefan, prof. Ing., DrSc. (20.05.2013)

Aim of the course -

Introduction into thin film and multilayer optics using Maxwell equations approach.

Last update: VISNOV/MFF.CUNI.CZ (15.05.2008)

Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Višňovský Štefan, prof. Ing., DrSc. (13.06.2019)

Literature -

R. M. A. Azzam, N. M. Bashara, Ellipsometry and polarized light, Noth-Holland, Amsterdam / New York / Oxford 1977.

P. Yeh, Electromagnetic propagation in birefringent layered media, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69 (1979) 742-756.

Weng Cho Chew, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York 1995).

F. Abeles, Recherches sur la propagation des ondes electromagnetiques sinusoidal dans les milieu stratifi0s. Application aux couches minces. Ann. Phys. Paris vol. 5, 596-640 (1950).

Last update: Višňovský Štefan, prof. Ing., DrSc. (13.06.2019)

Teaching methods -

Lecture

Last update: VISNOV/MFF.CUNI.CZ (15.05.2008)

Requirements to the exam -

Maxwell equations in planarly layered media. Isotropic multilayers at a general angle of incidence. Reflection and transmission amplitude coefficients. Poynting vector in multilayers. Reflectance and transmittance. Effective medium theory.

Last update: Višňovský Štefan, prof. Ing., DrSc. (13.06.2019)

Syllabus -

Electromagnetic wave interactions in an isotropic layer deposited on an isotropic substrate. Effect of the incident polarization. Reflection and transmission coefficients. Effect of absorption. Relations between material tensors and optical characteristics. Generalized ellipsometry. Effect of interfaces in multilayers. Effect of optical anisotropy in layered systems. Fraunhofer diffraction in laterally structured anisotropic multilayers.

Last update: Višňovský Štefan, prof. Ing., DrSc. (10.06.2019)