Study program
The M.Sc. Photonics course schedule commences its first semester with a compulsory adjustment module of fundamental lectures. The longer students follow the program, the larger their freedom to choose from a great number of different subjects from the catalogue of the M.Sc. Photonics study program (download the full PDF version here). Likewise, students are encouraged to make use of our research-grade laboratories to further their growing experience and knowledge of photonics, and to inspire independent thinking and creativity in our young scientists.
1st semester: Fundamentals and adjustment (30 ECs)
Fundamentals (2 courses of 4 ECs each, 4+4=8 ECs)
- Optical metrology and sensing (4 ECs)
- Introduction to optical modeling (4 ECs)
Adjustment (2 courses of 8 ECs each, 8+8=16 ECs)
- Fundamentals of modern optics (8 ECs)
- Structure of matter (8 ECs)
- Advanced quantum theory (8 ECs)
Research module (6 ECs)
- Experimental optics (6 ECs)
2nd semester: Fundamentals and specialization
Fundamentals (8 ECs)
- Laser physics (8 ECs)
Specialization I (3 courses of 4 ECs each, 4+4+4=12 ECs)
- Analytical instrumentations
- Applied laser technology I
- Biophotonics
- Biomedical imaging - nonionizing radiation
- Computational photonics
- Design and correction of optical systems
- Fiber optics
- Image processing
- Laser driven radiation sources
- Lens design I
- Light source modeling
- Micro/nanotechnology
- Microscopy
- Milestones in optics
- Modern methods of spectroscopy
- Nonlinear optical properties of solids
- Nuclear matter and formation of elements
- Optical engineering
- Optical properties of solids in external fields
- Optics for spectroscopists: Optical waves in solids
- Optoelectronics
- Physical optics modeling
- Physics of extreme EM fields
- Physics of free electron laser
- Physics solar cells
- Plasma physics
- Quantum optics
- Semiconductor nanomaterials
- Strong-field laser physics
- Theory of nonlinear optics
- XUV optics
Research module (10 ECs)
- Internship (10 ECs)
3rd semester: Specialization II and research
Specialization II (3 courses of 4 ECs each, 4+4+4=12 ECs)
- Active photonic devices
- Applied laser technology II
- Attosecond laserphysics
- Biomedical imaging - ionizing radiation
- Diffractive optics
- High-intensity and relativistic optics
- Image processing
- Imaging and aberration theory
- Interact of high-energy radiation with matter
- Introduction to accelerator physics
- Introduction to nanooptics
- Laser driven radiation sources
- Laser engineering
- Lens design II
- Light microscopy
- Nanoengineering
- Nonlinear dynamics in optical systems
- Nonlinear optics
- Optical properties of solids in external fields
- Particles in strong electromagnetic fields
- Photonic process. in highly ionized matter
- Physical optics
- Physical optics design
- Quantum communication
- Thin film optics
- Ultrafast optics
Research module (18 ECs)
- Research lab (18 ECs)
4th semester: Master's degree thesis
Research module (30 ECs)
- Master's degree thesis (30 ECs)
