The 2025/26 course of Applied Optics and Lasers will be taught in English, because there is one Erasmus student.
All the relevant formal information can be found in the Fénix intranet site of the course. All the materials will be found in CIRRUS. The link will be distributed by Fenix message.
Please consider very seriously the following:
THEORY
- The attendance of the theoretical classes will be registered and accounts for 15% of the final grade.
- Even if you don’t expect to work with optics in the future (or even if you do not like optics) you should be aware of many relevant concepts of light as well as technological and instrument issues.
- Some of you may decide to follow Optical Instruments (in the 2nd semester), and the concepts of this course will be required.
LAB
- Laboratory classes must be prepared in advance, otherwise time will be lost. You will work in groups, but the actual composition depends on the total number of students selecting this course (still unknown…)
- There are currently 4 lab classes and students must distribute evenly. Changes must be carried out during the first week for lab classes to begin, hopefully, on the 15th of September.
- Theory for the first lab classes has been already presented, earlier in your academic career and must be reviewed. Presentations form BSc course on Waves and Optics are available in CIRRUS. I will dedicate some time to pinpoint synthetically the most relevant parts.
- It is fully acknowledged that this should be your first contact with lasers and optics in the lab: always keep a very open mind and never forget that observation comes before interpretation. First, observe carefully, at several scales and try to separate the signals from noise; then try to relate with your recollections…
- No rigid protocols will be provided; you will be invited to implement several important setups with a lot of flexibility. No “black boxes” will be used in the lab. In most of the cases, you will not attempt to make quantitative measurements (you will quickly understand why…)