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This course provides an introduction to optical science with elementary engineering applications
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
638 years, 9 months
Units & Quizzes
23
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Certificate of Completion
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
Course Currilcum
- Course Organization; Introduction to Optic Unlimited
- Reflection and Refraction; Prisms; Waveguides; and Dipersion Unlimited
- Focusing, Imaging, and the Paraxial Approximation Unlimited
- Singh Conventions; Thin Lenses; Real and Virtual Images Unlimited
- Thick Lenses; The Composite Lenses; The Eye Unlimited
- Term; apertures, stops, pupils, and window; Single-lens Camera Unlimited
- Basics of mirrors, magnifiers, and microscopes Unlimited
- Telescopes; aberrations: chromatic, spherical, and coma Unlimited
- More Aberrations; optical Design; Gradient Index (GRIN) Unlimited
- The Hamiltonian Formulation; Introduction To Waves Unlimited
- The Wave Equations; Phasor Representation; 3D Waves Unlimited
- 3D Phenomena; Introduction to Electromagnetics Unlimited
- Maxwell’s Equations; Polarization; Poynting’s Vector Unlimited
- Huygens Principles; Interferometers; Fresnel Diffrection Unlimited
- Gratings; Amplitude and Phase, Sinusoidal and Binary Unlimited
- Fraunhofer Diffraction; Fourier Transform and Theorems Unlimited
- Spatial Filtering; Lens Transfer; Functions & Transform Unlimited
- The 4f System; Binary Amplitude & Pupil Masks Unlimited
- Shift Invariance; Pupil Engineering; The Talbot Effect Unlimited
- Coherent and Incoherent Imaging Unlimited
- Imaging With a Single Lens Unlimited
- Resolution; Desfused optical systems Unlimited
- Depth of Focus and field; polarization; Wave plates Unlimited
