Description:

Students will held 12 laboratory tasks in field of fine mechanics and optics. Every student work at its own workplace. Students became familiar to many laboratory equipments and measurement methods.

Contents:

Laboratory exercise to practice and deepen knowledge of geometric and wave optics.
? Measurement of a wedge angle of a prism
? Refractometry
? Measurement of lens? focal length by Cornu method, resolving power of lens
? Measurement of lens? focal length by Bessel method and form two object positions
? Measurement of Abbe number
? Illumination system
? Grating measurement
? Measurement of transmission and reflection
? Cole mine interferometer
? Rayleigh interferometer
? Measurement of mirror flatness
? Diffraction at a pinhole and slit, coherence length
? Polarization and Brewster?s angle, retardation plates

Seminar contents:

12 laboratory tasks in field of fine mechanics and optics

Recommended literature:

Moodle
Wiliams D. C.: Optical Methods in Engineering Metrology, Chapman&Hall, 1993

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