Lectures related to Fourier optics

Microscopy Resolution: Understanding Diffraction Patterns

Explores microscopy resolution through diffraction patterns of various apertures and the use of spatial filters.

Optical Methods: Fourier Filtering and Phase Contrast

Discusses optical methods, focusing on Fourier filtering techniques and phase contrast microscopy for analyzing and enhancing image quality.

Principles of Lasers: Optical Tweezers

Explores the principles of lasers, including lasing transitions and optical tweezers, with applications in various fields.

Fourier Optics: Wavefront Analysis

Explores Fourier optics, diffraction principles, Fourier analysis, and the application of Fourier transform in optics.

Multiple beam scattering in electron diffraction

Explores multiple beam scattering in electron diffraction, focusing on zone axis diffraction patterns and theoretical approaches.

Matrix Optics: Cardinal Points, Principal Planes, and Thick Lenses

Explains cardinal points, principal planes, and tracing rays through thick lenses in optical systems.

Beam Optics: Introduction and Applications

Covers beam optics, Gaussian beams, and wavefront curvature in various applications.

Wave Optics: Wave Phenomena & Interference

Explores wave propagation, diffraction, interference, and Young's double-slit experiment.

Matrix Optics

Covers the ray matrix of a lens and the matrix representation of lenses and curved mirrors.

Spatial Frequencies and Wave Propagation

Explores spatial frequencies, wave propagation, diffraction phenomena, and optical filtering techniques.

Resolution in Microscopy

Covers wave optics, image formation, and the importance of resolution in microscopy.

Optical Tweezers: Basics and Applications

Covers the basics of optical tweezers and their applications in microscopy, manipulation, and spectroscopy, as well as the alignment of molecules using laser pulses.

Matrix Optics: Ray Tracing & Imaging in Optical Systems

Explores the connection between matrix optics and ray optics in optical systems, focusing on ray tracing and imaging.

Reciprocal Lattice: Diffraction Basics III

Explores the reciprocal lattice, diffraction patterns, and atomic structure extraction.

Advanced Optics: Fundamentals and Applications

Covers fundamental topics in advanced optics, including ray optics, wave optics, and polarization optics.

Electromagnetic Waves and Optics

Covers electromagnetic fields, wave optics, wave interference, diffraction, induction, historical debates on light theories, the electromagnetic spectrum, and wave superposition.

Microscopy Resolution: Understanding Rayleigh Criteria

Explains microscopy resolution using Abbe's theory and Rayleigh criterion.

Matrix Optics

Explains ray vectors, matrices, and properties of paraxial optical systems, with examples of conjugate matrices for thin lens imaging systems.

Electromagnetic Waves: Reflection, Refraction, and Interference

Explores electromagnetic waves, wave optics, interference, and diffraction phenomena in experimental physics II.

Optics: Introduction

Introduces geometric, wave, and electromagnetic optics in a series of three courses.