This course provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engineering applications. Topics covered in geometrical optics include: ray-tracing, aberrations, lens design, apertures and stops, radiometry and photometry. Topics covered in wave optics include: basic electrodynamics, polarization, interference, wave-guiding, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, image formation, resolution, space-bandwidth product. Analytical and numerical tools used in optical design are emphasized. Graduate students are required to complete assignments with stronger analytical content, and an advanced design project.
Overview
Syllabus
- Lecture 1: Course organization; introduction to optics
- Lecture 2: Reflection and refraction; prisms, waveguides, and dispersion
- Lecture 3: Focusing, imaging, and the paraxial approximation
- Lecture 4: Sign conventions; thin lenses; real and virtual images
- Lecture 5: Thick lenses; the composite lens; the eye
- Lecture 6: Terms: apertures, stops, pupils, and windows; single-lens camera
- Lecture 7: Basics of mirrors, magnifiers, and microscopes
- Lecture 8: Telescopes; aberrations: chromatic, spherical, and coma
- Lecture 9: More aberrations; optical design; GRadient INdex (GRIN)
- Lecture 11: The Hamiltonian formulation; introduction to waves
- Lecture 12: The wave equation; phasor representation; 3D waves
- Lecture 13: 3D wave phenomena; introduction to electromagnetics
- Lecture 14: Maxwell's equations; polarization; Poynting's vector
- Lecture 15: Huygens principle; interferometers; Fresnel diffraction
- Lecture 16: Gratings: amplitude and phase, sinusoidal and binary
- Lecture 17: Fraunhofer diffraction; Fourier transforms and theorems
- Lecture 18: Spatial filtering; lens transfer functions & transforms
- Lecture 19: The 4F system; binary amplitude & pupil masks
- Lecture 20: Shift invariance; pupil engineering; the Talbot effect
- Lecture 22: Coherent and incoherent imaging
- Lecture 23: Imaging with a single lens
- Lecture 25: Resolution; defocused optical systems
- Lecture 26: Depth of focus and field; polarization; wave plates
Taught by
Prof. George Barbastathis, Dr. Se Baek Oh, and Prof. Colin Sheppard
