Optical Engineering

2.997

Fall Term '99

Course Syllabus Home

Last 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

 

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

 

TBA

Radiometry and photometry GB

 

10/4

Optical instruments I SDF

Instrumentation 10/13

10/6

Optical instruments II SDF

 

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

 

10/20

Fabry-Perot interferometer, interference filters, wavelength metrology GB

 

10/25

TBA GB

 

10/27

Midterm exam in class

 

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

 

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

 

11/22

Wavefront modulation/diffraction gratings GB

Frequency-domain optical methods, holography 12/1

11/24

Holography GB

 

11/29

3D imaging; confocal microscopy; biomedical imaging and optical data storage GB

 

12/1

Surface metrology, photolithography GB/SDF

 

12/6

Free-space optical interconnects GB

 

12/8

Rainbow holography, light shows, optical illusions GB/SDF

 

 

Final exam Thursday 12/16/99 9am-12noon; Room 1-371