ELECTROOPTICS

EM nature of light. Matrix method in optics. Polarization of light (polarizators and retarders, optical activity, birefringence; induced optical effects: photoelasticity, magneto and electrooptical effects). Acoustooptical effects. Superposition of waves and coherence. Fourier optics (power spectrum and correlation, optical transfer function, Fourier transform by lens, optical signal processing). Wave equation of nonuniform dielectric. Fundamentals of nonlinear optics. Detection of optical signals. Image tubes and image amplifiers.