Description:

Instruments and techniques based on optical principle, used in medicine and in the industry. Medical: instruments for eye inspection and surgery. Industrial: spectrometers and fibre sensors.

Contents:

Eye and vision
Microscope
Methods and instruments for eye inspection
Optical coherence tomography
Eye aberrations corrections - laser surgery
lasers for eye surgery
Eye aberrations corrections - intraocular implants
spectral instruments - principles, applications
fibres and fibre sensors

Seminar contents:

problems connected to lectures, analysis of a design and principle of an instrument

Recommended literature:

moodle text and video materials

Keywords:

optomechanical and medical instruments, ophtalmology, spectral instruments, fibre sensors

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