Optical Engineering
2.997
Fall Term '99
Course Syllabus
HomeLast updated 10/03/99
Date |
TOPIC (Instructor) |
ASSIGNMENTS (DUE) |
9/8 |
Optics and light, historical remarks, optical products, modern optical science & engineering; light properties, sources, reflection and refraction GB & SDF |
12QQ (12 Quick Questions) 9/15 |
9/13 |
Mirror and prism systems SDF |
Mirrors, prisms, dispersion 9/22 |
9/15 |
Paraxial Optics; basic imaging SDF |
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9/20 |
Paraxial Optics – lenses, mirrors, the optical invariant, matrix optics GB |
Geometrical optics 9/29 |
9/22 |
Aberrations, ray theory GB |
|
9/27 |
Stops and apertures SDF |
Stops, apertures, radiometry & photometry 10/6 |
9/29 |
No class |
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TBA |
Radiometry and photometry GB |
|
10/4 |
Optical instruments I SDF |
Instrumentation 10/13 |
10/6 |
Optical instruments II SDF |
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10/13 |
Light as a wave: Maxwell’s equations, wave equation, polarization GB |
Interferometry, polarization 10/25 |
10/18 |
Interference, Young’s experiment, basic interferometers GB |
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10/20 |
Fabry-Perot interferometer, interference filters, wavelength metrology GB |
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10/25 |
TBA GB |
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10/27 |
Midterm exam in class |
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11/1 |
Intro to Fourier Optics: 2D FTs GB |
2D FTs 11/10 |
11/3 |
Scalar diffraction theory, angular spectrum and propagation GB |
|
11/8 |
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction GB |
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction 11/17 |
11/10 |
Fourier approach to lenses and imaging GB |
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11/15 |
Frequency analysis of coherent optical systems, resolution, space-bandwidth product GB |
Resolution, super-resolution, aberrations 11/24 |
11/17 |
Frequency analysis of incoherent optical systems, frequency domain treatment of aberrations GB |
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11/22 |
Wavefront modulation/diffraction gratings GB |
Frequency-domain optical methods, holography 12/1 |
11/24 |
Holography GB |
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11/29 |
3D imaging; confocal microscopy; biomedical imaging and optical data storage GB |
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12/1 |
Surface metrology, photolithography GB/SDF |
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12/6 |
Free-space optical interconnects GB |
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12/8 |
Rainbow holography, light shows, optical illusions GB/SDF |
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Final exam Thursday 12/16/99 9am-12noon; Room 1-371 |
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