Course Title

Optics for Optometry

Course Number

7107102

Instructor Name

Hadil Abualrob

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Second Semester 2021
Second Semester 2018
First Semester 2017
Second Semester 2016

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

It deals with three main topics: geometrical, physical and visual optics. It begins by describing light-matter interaction such as: light reflection, refraction, scattering and absorption based on geometrical optics based on the paraxial approximation. It introduces image formation by thins lenses and mirrors based on both ray tracing and the vergence equation. The physical optics part explains some diffraction and interference phenomena based on the wave nature of light. The visual optics part explains the vision process and goes in the details of the eye defects. At the end of this part, students are supposed to determine the eye defect type and the required correction by contact and spectacle lenses and by creating prismatic effects in lenses.

introducing the foundation of the geametrical optics

analysis of daily phenomena such as light reflecion and refraction by physical interpretation

understand the wave nature of light and some related phenomena such as diffraction and interference

learn how to determine the eye defect then how o correct it by lenses

prepare the optometry students to be involved in the optometry clinics by understanding the physical origin of the clinical diagnostic.

Geometrical, Physical and Visual Optics, Keating, second edition.