Study Programmes 2015-2016
MCER0061-1  
Module 1 : Optics
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Certificate of university in Oral Laser Applications3
Lecturer :
Collégialité
Coordinator :
Samir Namour
Language(s) of instruction :
English language
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Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
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History of lasers :
Laser history, lasers in medicine, lasers in dentistry, lasers in science, ...

Optics date:

  • Introduction
  • Origins
  • Optics in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries and today
  • Geometrical optics
  • The field concept
  • Mathematical formulation of the electromagnetic phenomenon
  • Diffraction, reflection, interference
The quantum nature of the light:
  • Black bodies radiation
  • The light wave/particle dualism
  • The photoelectric effect
  • Absorption and emission
Medical statistics
Scientific literature
SAS workshop
Statistical methods
E-Learning
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