OPTICS UNIT I : Thick Lenses.

. Thick lens Principal foci and principal points Thick lens formulae Power of a thick lens Nodal points Optical centre of a lens Spherical lens. Lens aberrations: Spherical aberration Spherical aberration of a thin lens Ray tracing Methods of reducing spherical aberration Coma - Aplanatic surface Astigmatism Curvature of the field - Meniscus lens Distortion. UNIT II : Optical Instruments Kellners eyepiece Ramsdens eyepiece Huygens eyepiece. Resolving power of optical instruments. Resolving power Rayleighs criterion of resolution. Resolving power of a (1) Telescope (2) Microscope (3) Electron microscope (4) Prisms (5) Grating Dispersive power and resolving power of a grating The echelon grating. UNIT III : Interference : Colours of thin films Air wedge Newtons rings - Haidingers fringes Brewsters fringes Michelson Interferometer and its applications Fabry perot Interferometer Lummer and Gehreke plate Interference filter Stationary waves in light colour photography (ideas only) Holography (ideas only). UNIT IV : Diffraction: Fresnels diffraction Diffraction at a (1) circular aperture (2) opaque circular disc (3) Straight edge (4) narrow wire. Cornus spiral Fresnels Integrals Fraunhofer diffraction at a single slit - Double slit Missing

orders in a Double slit, Diffraction pattern Grating with theory Oblique incidence Overlapping of spectral lines Diffraction pattern Grating with theory Oblique incidence - Overlapping of spectral lines Concave reflection grating with theory. UNIT V : Polarization. Nicol prism Nicol prism as an analyzer and polarizer Huygens explanation of Double refraction in uniaxial crystals Double Image polarizing prisms Elliptically and circularly polarized light production and detection quarter wave plate and half wave plate Babinets compensator optical activity Fresnels explanation of optical activity Laurents Half shade polarimeter. Books for Study: 1. Optics by Brijlal and Subramaniam. 2. Optics by Khanna and Gulati. Books for Reference: 1. Optics Jenkins and White, McGraw Hill. 2. Optics Ajoy Chatak (TMH)
(c) Geometrical Optics Laws of relfection and refraction from Fermat's principle. Matrix method in paraxial optic-thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations. Optics: Matrix method in preaxial optics. Thin lens formulae, Nodal planes, Systems of two thin lenses, Chromatic and Spherical aberration, Optical instruments, Eyepieces, Nature and propagation of Light, Interference, Division of wavefront, Division of amplitude, Simple interferometers. Diffraction Fraunhofer and Fresnel,Gratings. Resolving power of optical instruments. Rayleigh criterion, Polarization, Production and Detection of Polarized light. Rayleigh Scattering. Raman Scattering, Lasers and their applications.