Optics and its Application in Nanobiology

This course has two parts: an Optics part and an Applications part

Optics content:

Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves in vacuum and non-conducting materials, electric dipole radiation, dispersion, Fermat's Principle, reflection, refraction and transmission of electromagnetic waves at an interface between two media, Fresnel equations for reflectance and transmittance, total internal reflection and evanescent waves, fiber optics

Applications content:

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, Förster resonant energy transfer, optogenetics (controlling cells with light), multiphoton microscopy, light sheet microscopy, introduction to nonlinear optics, optics of short-pulsed lasers, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy