Undergraduate Program
Term Schedule
Spring 2021
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
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OPT 1000-1
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Graduate teaching assistantship in Optics |
OPT 144-1
Scott Carney
F 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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Students identify a suitable project, build a team, and explore the feasibility and potential solution space for the selected project area. The intellectual structure of the engineering design process is studied in detail in order to encapsulate the ideation and problem identification aspects of engineering senior design and facilitate student innovation.
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OPT 144-2
Scott Carney
W 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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No description
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OPT 202-1
Jim Zavislan
MW 7:00PM - 10:00PM
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This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
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OPT 202-2
Jim Zavislan
TR 6:15PM - 9:55PM
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This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
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OPT 202-3
Jim Zavislan
TR 3:25PM - 6:05PM
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This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis.
|
OPT 204-1
Svetlana Lukishova
M 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
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OPT 204-3
Svetlana Lukishova
R 6:15PM - 8:55PM
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This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
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OPT 204-4
Svetlana Lukishova
W 6:15PM - 8:55PM
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This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
|
OPT 204-5
Svetlana Lukishova
M 6:15PM - 8:55PM
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This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
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OPT 204-6
Svetlana Lukishova
T 6:15PM - 8:55PM
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This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission
|
OPT 211-2
Gregory Savich
W 8:00AM - 9:00AM
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Teaches techniques of transforming continuous problems to discrete mathematical models. Students learn computational methods for solving problems in optics using high level software. Includes labs.
|
OPT 211-3
Gregory Savich
M 8:00AM - 9:00AM
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Teaches techniques of transforming continuous problems to discrete mathematical models. Students learn computational methods for solving problems in optics using high level software. Includes labs.
|
OPT 214-1
John Bowen
T 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This course gives engineering undergraduates early exposure to the tools (e.g. Zemax/CODE V) needed for most summer internships while introducing tools for the design and analysis of an optical system. This is not a lens design class as the focus of the class is on layout and evaluation, not optimization. Students will be taught how to use catalog components to layout and evaluate a variety of laboratory/benchtop optical systems in software. Prerequisite: OPT 241
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OPT 222-1
Jennifer Kruschwitz
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
|
Color Technology is more than just pigments, dyes, paints, and textiles. Everywhere in modern technology (smart phones, tablets, displays, lighting, cinema, printers, etc.) is the need for a basic understanding of how we measure, identify, communicate, specify, and render color from one device to another. This course addresses color order systems, color spaces, color measurement, color difference, additive and subtractive color, and rendering of color images. The student will learn about color matching, lighting conditions, metamerism, and color constancy. At the semesters end, each student will have compiled a Color Toolbox with useful functions to derive different necessary color values within MatLab. Prerequisites: OPT 211, Linear Algebra
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OPT 223-1
Andrew Berger
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars!
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OPT 223-2
Andrew Berger
M 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars!
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OPT 223-3
Andrew Berger
M 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars!
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OPT 225-1
Jaime Cardenas
WF 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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This course provides the basic concepts required for understanding radiometry and the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors.
|
OPT 232-1
Victor Genberg
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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System performance of glass with metal or plastic, kinematic design, material limitations. Applications to optical metrology, alignment, geometry 2D and 3D. This course is an OPT elective.
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OPT 232-2
Victor Genberg
W 7:40PM - 8:55PM
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System performance of glass with metal or plastic, kinematic design, material limitations. Applications to optical metrology, alignment, geometry 2D and 3D. This course is an OPT elective.
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OPT 244-1
Georg Nadorff
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
|
You will gain knowledge of classical as well as modern approaches to the science and art of contemporary lens design. Using state-of-the-art optical design software (both CODE V and Zemax) you will be prepared to design and analyze the next generation of optics, from cinema primes to bio-tech microscopes to wafer photolithographic fabrication and inspection tools. Grounding the design philosophy in third order aberration theory, we move on to achromatization, optical design forms for objectives, eyepieces, reflective, and illumination systems. Advanced surface types including aspheres, diffractives, and gradient index are covered. Optimization theory and methods to improve a design are fundamental, followed closely by tolerancing and compensation techniques for predicting as-built performance. The course concludes with an individual lens design project which will be pitched to a panel of experts
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OPT 244-2
Georg Nadorff
M 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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Throughout the entire semester heavy use of CODE V supporting the homework assignments will be required. The recitations will be used as training classes and tutorials in use of the design codes. Attendance is mandatory.
|
OPT 248-1
Sarah Walters
TR 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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How the human eye's optical and neural factors process color and spatial information includes comparison with the design and capabilities of other animals' eyes.
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OPT 254-1
Svetlana Lukishova
TR 8:00AM - 9:30AM
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The schedule of OPT 254/PHYS 371 will be changed before starting this class for the days and time convenient to every student. This advanced laboratory class for juniors and seniors (sophomores should contact the instructor for permission) consists of three modules accompanied by lecture materials: Module 1. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (both online); Module 2. Atomic force microscopy (hybrid); Module 3. Confocal fluorescence and optical microscopy (hybrid). In addition to the 2 hours labs, topics covered in 1 hour lab lectures (online) include function and capabilities of the SEM and TEM, the nature of nanoscale surface forces in solids and principles of atomic force microscopy, confocal fluorescence microscopy of single nanoemitters, optical microscopy including high-resolution optical microscopy, and discussion of advances of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Students are expected to have completed a sequence in introductory physics with a strong performance in electromagnetism, the basics of modern physics and physical optics. Junior and Senior level. Maximum 8 students can take this course. Please, contact Prof. Svetlana Lukishova (lukishov@optics.rochester.edu) for instructor permission. This is a required class for the University of Rochester program on the Certificate for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
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OPT 261-2
Nick Vamivakas
R 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography.
|
OPT 261-3
Nick Vamivakas
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography.
|
OPT 261-4
Nick Vamivakas
W 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography.
|
OPT 272-1
Michael Giacomelli
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
|
This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out in biomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270 or permission of instructor.
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OPT 287-1
William Renninger
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
|
Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema.
|
OPT 287-2
William Renninger
F 2:00PM - 3:15PM
|
Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema.
|
OPT 287-3
William Renninger
F 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema.
|
OPT 307-1
Brian McIntyre
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
|
Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects by semester's end. Students need the instructor's permission to take this course. E-mail Brian McIntyre at brian.mcintyre@rochester.edu.
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OPT 311-1
Wayne Knox
MWF 11:50AM - 12:40PM
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Documenting each stage,student teams design, build, and test an optical device or instrument for a faculty, community or industrial sponsor.
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OPT 321-1
Wayne Knox
MWF 11:50AM - 12:40PM
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With faculty supervision: reading, experimentation, and writing of final thesis and presentation of results. Students wishing to major in 'Optics' will register for this course.
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OPT 391-1
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
OPT 394-1
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
OPT 395-1
Wayne Knox
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Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration. |
Spring 2021
Number | Title | Instructor | Time |
---|---|
Monday | |
OPT 211-3
Gregory Savich
|
|
Teaches techniques of transforming continuous problems to discrete mathematical models. Students learn computational methods for solving problems in optics using high level software. Includes labs. |
|
OPT 204-1
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission |
|
OPT 223-3
Andrew Berger
|
|
Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars! |
|
OPT 223-2
Andrew Berger
|
|
Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars! |
|
OPT 244-2
Georg Nadorff
|
|
Throughout the entire semester heavy use of CODE V supporting the homework assignments will be required. The recitations will be used as training classes and tutorials in use of the design codes. Attendance is mandatory. |
|
OPT 204-5
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission |
|
Monday and Wednesday | |
OPT 222-1
Jennifer Kruschwitz
|
|
Color Technology is more than just pigments, dyes, paints, and textiles. Everywhere in modern technology (smart phones, tablets, displays, lighting, cinema, printers, etc.) is the need for a basic understanding of how we measure, identify, communicate, specify, and render color from one device to another. This course addresses color order systems, color spaces, color measurement, color difference, additive and subtractive color, and rendering of color images. The student will learn about color matching, lighting conditions, metamerism, and color constancy. At the semesters end, each student will have compiled a Color Toolbox with useful functions to derive different necessary color values within MatLab. Prerequisites: OPT 211, Linear Algebra |
|
OPT 261-3
Nick Vamivakas
|
|
Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography. |
|
OPT 244-1
Georg Nadorff
|
|
You will gain knowledge of classical as well as modern approaches to the science and art of contemporary lens design. Using state-of-the-art optical design software (both CODE V and Zemax) you will be prepared to design and analyze the next generation of optics, from cinema primes to bio-tech microscopes to wafer photolithographic fabrication and inspection tools. Grounding the design philosophy in third order aberration theory, we move on to achromatization, optical design forms for objectives, eyepieces, reflective, and illumination systems. Advanced surface types including aspheres, diffractives, and gradient index are covered. Optimization theory and methods to improve a design are fundamental, followed closely by tolerancing and compensation techniques for predicting as-built performance. The course concludes with an individual lens design project which will be pitched to a panel of experts |
|
OPT 307-1
Brian McIntyre
|
|
Overview of techniques for using the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Scanning Probe (AFM, STM) and analyzing data. Students perform independent lab projects by semester's end. Students need the instructor's permission to take this course. E-mail Brian McIntyre at brian.mcintyre@rochester.edu. |
|
OPT 232-1
Victor Genberg
|
|
System performance of glass with metal or plastic, kinematic design, material limitations. Applications to optical metrology, alignment, geometry 2D and 3D. This course is an OPT elective. |
|
OPT 202-1
Jim Zavislan
|
|
This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis. |
|
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday | |
OPT 311-1
Wayne Knox
|
|
Documenting each stage,student teams design, build, and test an optical device or instrument for a faculty, community or industrial sponsor. |
|
OPT 321-1
Wayne Knox
|
|
With faculty supervision: reading, experimentation, and writing of final thesis and presentation of results. Students wishing to major in 'Optics' will register for this course. |
|
Tuesday | |
OPT 214-1
John Bowen
|
|
This course gives engineering undergraduates early exposure to the tools (e.g. Zemax/CODE V) needed for most summer internships while introducing tools for the design and analysis of an optical system. This is not a lens design class as the focus of the class is on layout and evaluation, not optimization. Students will be taught how to use catalog components to layout and evaluate a variety of laboratory/benchtop optical systems in software. Prerequisite: OPT 241 |
|
OPT 204-6
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission |
|
Tuesday and Thursday | |
OPT 254-1
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
The schedule of OPT 254/PHYS 371 will be changed before starting this class for the days and time convenient to every student. This advanced laboratory class for juniors and seniors (sophomores should contact the instructor for permission) consists of three modules accompanied by lecture materials: Module 1. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) (both online); Module 2. Atomic force microscopy (hybrid); Module 3. Confocal fluorescence and optical microscopy (hybrid). In addition to the 2 hours labs, topics covered in 1 hour lab lectures (online) include function and capabilities of the SEM and TEM, the nature of nanoscale surface forces in solids and principles of atomic force microscopy, confocal fluorescence microscopy of single nanoemitters, optical microscopy including high-resolution optical microscopy, and discussion of advances of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Students are expected to have completed a sequence in introductory physics with a strong performance in electromagnetism, the basics of modern physics and physical optics. Junior and Senior level. Maximum 8 students can take this course. Please, contact Prof. Svetlana Lukishova (lukishov@optics.rochester.edu) for instructor permission. This is a required class for the University of Rochester program on the Certificate for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. |
|
OPT 223-1
Andrew Berger
|
|
Intro to quantum mechanics in the context of modern optics and optical technology. Wave mechanics as applied to electrons in crystals and in quantum wells and the optical properties of materials. Semiconductor junctions in photodetectors and photoemitters. You can do this my Optics superstars! |
|
OPT 272-1
Michael Giacomelli
|
|
This course will review the engineering of optical system for biomedical microscopy by exploring widely used biomedical imaging systems such as confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy and optical coherent tomography among others. These techniques will be introduced in the context of the imaging problems they solve with a goal of giving students a broad, undergraduate level understanding of the constraints and solutions to biomedical microscopy. The graduate version of this course will include additional assignments and be appropriate for graduate students starting out in biomedical optics. Prerequisites: OPT261 and BME270 or permission of instructor. |
|
OPT 287-1
William Renninger
|
|
Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema. |
|
OPT 202-3
Jim Zavislan
|
|
This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis. |
|
OPT 248-1
Sarah Walters
|
|
How the human eye's optical and neural factors process color and spatial information includes comparison with the design and capabilities of other animals' eyes. |
|
OPT 202-2
Jim Zavislan
|
|
This lab complements OPT 261. Experiments cover interference and diffraction phenomena, introduction to optical information processing and electronic imaging systems with emphasis on error analysis. |
|
Wednesday | |
OPT 211-2
Gregory Savich
|
|
Teaches techniques of transforming continuous problems to discrete mathematical models. Students learn computational methods for solving problems in optics using high level software. Includes labs. |
|
OPT 261-4
Nick Vamivakas
|
|
Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography. |
|
OPT 144-2
Scott Carney
|
|
No description |
|
OPT 204-4
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission |
|
OPT 232-2
Victor Genberg
|
|
System performance of glass with metal or plastic, kinematic design, material limitations. Applications to optical metrology, alignment, geometry 2D and 3D. This course is an OPT elective. |
|
Wednesday and Friday | |
OPT 225-1
Jaime Cardenas
|
|
This course provides the basic concepts required for understanding radiometry and the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. |
|
Thursday | |
OPT 261-2
Nick Vamivakas
|
|
Complex representation of waves; scalar diffraction theory; Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and application to measurement; diffraction and image formation; optical transfer function; coherent optical systems, optical data processing, and holography. |
|
OPT 204-3
Svetlana Lukishova
|
|
This lab complements OPT 225 and provides the basic concepts required for understanding the operation of optical sources and photodetectors. It covers important sources such as lasers and light-emitting diodes as well several types of photodetectors. Prerequisites: OPT 203 or instructor permission |
|
Friday | |
OPT 144-1
Scott Carney
|
|
Students identify a suitable project, build a team, and explore the feasibility and potential solution space for the selected project area. The intellectual structure of the engineering design process is studied in detail in order to encapsulate the ideation and problem identification aspects of engineering senior design and facilitate student innovation. |
|
OPT 287-2
William Renninger
|
|
Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema. |
|
OPT 287-3
William Renninger
|
|
Techniques used in mathematical study of optical phenomena. Emphasis on gaining insight and experience in the use of these powerful and elegant tools for describing, solving and resolving optical systems and schema. |