Glass and optical materials, laws of optics (even/curved surfaces, lenses, fundamental laws of image formation), aberrations and their correction, effect of aperture/field stops for ray bundles, fundamental types of optical instruments (magnifying glass, telescope, microscope), Abbe's theory (wave optics in image formation/diffraction), microscope optics considering diffraction, contrast techniques of microscopy. Hands-on with excellent calculation program LINOS WINLENS based on Windows (free download on www.winlens.de)
Lecture notes for this course are available and can be downloaded as PDF-file via "Go to Course Materials".
Schröder: Technische Optik, Vogel-Buchverlag Würzburg (2007) - Pedrotti-Bausch-Schmidt: Optik für Ingenieure, Springer Verlag (2002) - Naumann-Schröder: Bauelemente der Optik, Hanser Verlag München (2004) - Michel: Die Grundzüge der Theorie des Mikroskops, Wiss. Verlagsges.m.b.H. Stuttgart (1964)
Optics from lecture Grundlagen der Physik II - see also literature.
Optical Design Software (download at www.winlens.de free of charge):
* WinLens 3D basic
* PreDesigner
* Lens Library