Description:

This course focuses on basics of geometrical optics and its applications in the field of optical design of simple optical elements and systems (lenses, mirrors, prisms, telescopes, etc.). The second part of the course deals with a description and analysis of a human eye as an optical imaging system. The design and analysis of various types of spectacle lenses for correction of refraction errors is presented.c

Contents:

1. Light and its properties, basics of geometrical optics
2. Imaging using simple optical elements
3. Imaging using compound optical elements and systems
4. Parameters and properties of optical elements and systems
5. Aberrations of optical elements and systems
6. Basic optical instruments and their properties, human eye and its optical system
7. Aberrations of human eye and possibilities of their correction, correction of refractive errors using spectacle lenses
8. Types of spectacle lenses, their parameters and design
9. Spectacle lenses with spherical surfaces
10. Prismatic effect of spectacle lenses
11. Spectacle lenses with aspherical surfaces
12. Multifocal and progressive spectacle lenses
13. Vision correction using spectacle lenses
14. Testing of parameters of spectacle lenses

Seminar contents:

Subject matter of excersises follows lectures.

Recommended literature:

[1] MIKŠ, A. Aplikovaná optika. Vydavatelství ČVUT, Praha 2009. ISBN: 978-80-01-04254-0.
[2] RUTRLE, M. Brýlová optika, 2.vyd. Brno, Inst. pro další vzdělávání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví v Brně, 1993. ISBN: 80-7013-145-4.
[3] ALONSO, J., GÓMEZ-PEDRERO, J.A., QUIROGA, J.A. Modern Ophthalmic Optics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019. ISBN: 978-1316275474.
[4] JALIE, M. The Principles of Opthalmic Lenses. ABDO College of Education, 5th ed., London 2016. ISBN: 978-0900099021
[5] DIEPES, H., BLENDOWSKE, R. Optik und Technik der Brille. DOZ-Verlag, Heidelberg 2005. ISBN: 978-3922269618
[6] MEISTER, D., SHEEDY, J.E. Introduction to Opthalmic Optics. Carl Zeiss Vision, 6th ed., San Diego 2008. (http://64.50.176.246/files/introduction_to_ophthalmic_optics.pdf)
[7] SCHWARTZ, S.H. Geometrical and Visual Optics, 3rd ed. Mcgraw Hill Medical, 2019. ISBN: 9781260121094.

Keywords:

geometrical optics, ophthalmic optics

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar