The present work is a course document intended for students of second year undergraduate physics students. It has been drawn up in accordance with the outline proposed by the teaching committee of the Department of Automatic Control and approved by the supervisory authority.

The document is divided into nine sections:
- Basics and principals
- Snell-Descartes Laws
- Optical systems
- Optical instruments
- Waves: Introduction and Generalities
- Interference
- Diffraction
- Polarisation
- Lasers and their applications