This course covers coherence, light interaction with matter, scattering, absorption and dispersion. Electromagnetic spectrum. Light propagation, analytical ray tracing (matrix methods); langragian formulation of optics, Gaussian beams. Modulation transfer function, point spread function, guided waves.

Classification and conditions of intereference, types of interferometers.  Diffraction: Fraunhoffer, Fresnel, Abbe and Babinet principles, Zone Plate, Rayleigh criterion.

Polarization by reflection and retarders.

Elements of Atmospheric optics, Introduction to lasers, Lidars and the DOAS technique.