Week 1 : Introduction to Optical Engineering Postulates of Geometric Optics Geometric Optics and Imaging, Refraction at a single surface
Week 2 : Thin lens, Lens imaging conditions, Aperture stop, pupils, important rays
Lab: Introduction to Optics Software for Layout and Optimization (OSLO). Case study: Snells Law
Week 3 : Ray tracing using matrix method, Thick lenses, principal planes
Lab: OSLO - Designing a lens with specific focal length.
Week 4 : Monochromatic Aberrations, means of quantifying aberrations
Lab: OSLO - Locating the cardinal points of an optical system
Week 5 : Chromatic Aberrations, correcting aberrations
Lab: OSLO - Aberration Optimisation, Part 1
Week 6 : Gaussian beams, transmittance of an optical element
Lab: OSLO- Aberration Optimisation, Part 2
Week 7 : Gaussian beam transformation through a lens
Lab OSLO -Exploring different kinds of coordinate systems in OSLO
Week 8 : Basics of Interference
Week 9 : Applications of Interference, holography
Lab: (Matlab or Python) - Introduction
Week 10 : Basics of diffraction
Lab: (Matlab or Python) – Studying interference through simulations
Week 11 : Applications - Barcode readers,Finger print sensors,Pick-up heads used in DVD/CD players,Biomedical
instrumentation Interferometers for metrology (Optical coherence tomography)Sensors
Week 12 : Applications - Barcode readers,Finger print sensors,Pick-up heads used in DVD/CD players,Biomedical
instrumentation Interferometers for metrology (Optical coherence tomography)Sensors
Thanks to the support from MathWorks, enrolled students have access to MATLAB for the duration of the course.
The course will use the educational version of the optical design tool OSLO EDU, available free for students from https://www.lambdares.com/edu/
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