Learning outcomes
The course covers fundamental theoretical and laboratory concepts and principles of Wave Optics, including diffraction, interference, and polarization. Moreover, subjects such as photometric quantities, techniques for focusing, view finding and range finding in contemporary cameras are also studied. Students are expected to develop skills such as the ability to quantify photographic quantities, identify and apply computational relationships in photographic imaging, and comprehend the physical phenomena that arise during a typical photographic process.
General Competences
- Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology,
- Decision making,
- Team work
- Criticism and self – criticism
- Production of free, creative and inductive thinking.
Course Outline
THEORY
- Human vision (principle of operation), Comparison of human eye – camera
- Wave characteristics of light, interference and diffraction effects
- Light polarization, sunlight, scattering effects, atmospheric optics, Malus Law in linear polarizing filters, Polarization by reflection
- Photoelectric effect
- Optical fiber, principle of operation, image transfer
- Photometry, basic quantities, relation of equal illuminance, spectra of light sources, light source performance
- Pinhole camera, principle of operation, calculation of appropriate aperture, exposure times
- Stereoscopy (principle of operation), calculation of stereoscopic basis, pairs of stereoscopic images
- Stereoscopic images (principle of operation), calculation of stereoscopic basis, pairs of stereoscopic images
- Lenticular Screens: ways of creation, principle of operation.
LABORATORY (Exercises – indicative title reference)
- Theoretical exercise (computational)
- Determining the optical properties of a camera lens in a smart-phone
- Lens aberrations (Spherical, Chromatic)
- Calculation of incandescent lamp efficiency
- Polar distribution of the Luminous intensity of a light source
- Photoelectric effect, characteristic operating curves
- Diffraction grating (Hg spectrum)
- Optical Power of thin lens combinations (in contact, at distance)
- Polarization – polarizing filters, confirmation of Malus law.
Laboratory exercises are performed by means of modern experimental equipment such as Spectroscopes, luxmeters, digital sensors, polarizers and filters, power supplies, digital multimeters, etc.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ΟΠΤΙΚΑ ΟΡΓΑΝΑ ΑΠΕΙΚΟΝΙΣΗΣ, Π. Δρακόπουλος κ.α. Σύγχρονη γνώση, Αθήνα 2011
- ΟΠΤΙΚΗ Κ. Δ. Αλεξόπουλος, Παν. Εκδόσεις, Αθήνα
- LIGHT SCIENCE, PHYSICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS, Thomas D. Rossing et al., Springer 1999
- OPTICS, E. Hecht et al., Addison-Wesley 1974
- OPTICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY Kingslake, SPIE, 1992
- CAMERA TECHNOLOGY, Goldberg, Acad. Press, 1992
- COLOR AND LIGHT IN NATURE 2nd ed. D.K. Lynch et al., Cambridge Univ. Press 2001
- INTRODUCTION TO OPTICS, F. Pedrotti et al., Prentice Hall, 1987
- ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΑ ΟΠΤΙΚΗΣ, Γ. Ασημέλλης, Σύγχρονη Γνώση, Αθήνα 2005