The course will include 13 lectures, organized through Zoom:
1. Polarization of light: definition, brief history, role in photonics, demonstrations.
2. Jones vector and Jones matrices. Transformations with phase plates and rotators.
3. Stokes observables and Müller matrices. Poincare sphere representation.
4. Geometrical phase. Pancharatnam phase.
5. Crystal optics: birefringence, ellipsoid of wave normals
6. Crystal optics: uniaxial and biaxial crystals, walkoff, liquid crystals.
7. Polarization of light under tight focusing.
8. Polarization optical elements that we use in the lab.
9. Polarization in nonlinear optics: phase and group matching.
10. Polarization in quantum optics: operators.
11. Polarization in quantum optics: states. ‘Hidden polarization’ effect.
12. Polarization entangled photons: Bell inequality violation.
13. Quantum key distribution with polarized photons.

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1Polarization of light: Lecture 1Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-11-04 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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2Polarization of light: Lecture 2Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-11-10 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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3Polarization of light: Lecture 3Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-11-19 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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4Polarization of light: Lecture 4Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-11-25 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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5Polarization of light: Lecture 5Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-12-01 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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6Polarization of light: Lecture 6Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-12-09 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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7Polarization of light: Lecture 7Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2020-12-19 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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8Polarization of light: Lecture 8Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-01-05 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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9Polarization of light: Lecture 9Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-01-12 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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10Polarization of light: Lecture 10Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-01-19 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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11Polarization of light: Lecture 11Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-01-26 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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12Polarization of light: Lecture 12Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-02-02 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip
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13Polarization of light: Lecture 13Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova2021-02-09 Wintersemester 2020/2021Nur für Portal, StudOn-ZugangGesperrt clip