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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course material aims at students’ understanding of the principles of operation of the basic optical instruments, for use in daily practice in their professional career.
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
• know the principles of operation of optical imaging instruments for the understanding of technological and scientific research methods in their subject.
• Be familiar with the use of various optical instruments
SYLLABUS
- Light propagation, wavefronts, rays, vergence, diopters, third-order lens aberrations
- Photometry (luminous flux, luminance, illumination, Lambert surfaces)
- Optical characteristics of optical instruments (stops – pupils – chief and marginal rays – numerical aperture – f number – angle of view, field of view).
- Image quality, optical resolution, spatial frequencies, modulation transfer function, point spread function
- Magnifier, oculars, Projection systems
- Microscopes, telescopes, binoculars, telemicroscopes, cameras – photographic lenses.
- Focimeter, keratometer, corneal topographer, slit lamp, optometer, retinoscope, ophthalmoscope