2023-2024 / MCER0061-1

Module 1 : Optics

Duration

Number of credits

 University certificate : training in "the use of lasers in dental medicine"3 crédits 

Lecturer

Collégialité

Coordinator

Samir Namour

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Recommended or required readings

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Association of one or more MOOCs