Optical Engineering

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Selected Elective for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Groups / Course Categories: Threads / ECE Electives

Course Coordinator: Thomas K Gaylord

Prerequisites: ECE 3025 [min C]

Catalog Description

Introduction to applications of geometric & physical optics to
engineering, including optical measurements, matrix methods,
instruments, interference, holography, beam optics, Fourier
optics & diffraction.

Textbook(s)

Introduction to Optics

Course Outcomes

Design and implement optical components and imaging systems using geometrical optics. 

Describe and analyze modern photonic systems for display, data storage, communication, and illumination. 

Design and characterize optical sources, including fluorescence, light emitting diodes, lasers, etc.   

Analyze light waves and their characteristics such as optical interference, diffraction, polarization, etc. 

Analyze and implement optical waveguides used in fiber communications and integrated photonics.

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

N/A

Topic List

  1. Modern Optical/Optoelectronic Systems
    1. Communications; Data Storage; Display; Spectroscopy; Detection; Imaging; Data Processing; Illumination
    2. Optical Sources and Measurements
  2. Blackbody Radiation
    1. Light Sources / Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
    2. Lasers
    3. Coherence (Spatial /Temporal )
    4. Radiometry / Photometry
    5. Geometrical Optics (Image Formation)
  3. Reflection and Refraction at a Spherical Surface
    1. Thin and Thick Lenses
    2. Optical Components
    3. Lenses, Mirrors, Prisms, Beam Splitters
    4. Aberrations in Optical Systems
    5. Optical Instruments
    6. Microscopes, Telescopes
  4. ElectromagneticOptics
    1. Polarized Light
    2. Reflection and Refraction
    3. Brewster's Angle
    4. Interference
    5. Diffraction
    6. Fraunhoffer
    7. Fresnel
    8. Grating Diffraction
  5. Waveguide Optics
    1. Planar waveguides
    2. Fiber optics
    3. Phase and Group Velocity
    4. Dispersion
    5. Fourier Opticsand Holography
    6. Optical Fourier Transforms
    7. Holography
    8. Production of Holograms
    9. Holographic Nondestructive Testing
    10. Optical Data Processing
    11. Pattern Recognition
    12. Image Enhancement
    13. Optical Memories