Optics

Teaching Methodologies

The teaching methodology includes lectures and tutorial classes.
In the lectures the concepts corresponding to the syllabus are orally exposed. In tutorial classes, students are oriented, examples are given and exercises proposed where appropriate.
The knowledge acquired is evaluated at the final examinations conducted according to the rules in force at ISEC.

Learning Results

Grasp the basics of geometrical and wave optics, with emphasis on the concepts technically and clinically more relevant. It is made an introduction to the use of lasers in medicine and their main applications.

Program

1. The nature of light
2. Geometrical optics
3. Optical instruments
4. Polarization
5. Interference
6. Diffraction
7. LASERs and biomedical applications

Curricular Unit Teachers

Internship(s)

NAO