Welcome to OPTO 5315 - Physical Optics
Physical Optics is the second optics course in the first-year Optometry curriculum. It covers many topics in geometical and physical optics, such as prism, thick lenses, apertures and stops, magnification and low vision aids, optical instruments, dispersion, the wave nature of light, lasers, interference, thin films and anti-reflection coatings, diffraction, and polarization. Students are expected to gain confidence in and a working knowledge of concepts, language, terminology, definitions, equations, and principles of geometric and physical optics, and a comprehensive understanding of how geometric and physical optics relate to the profession of optometry.
