Winter 2009-2010

1. Four (4) credit hours
2. Four (4) lecture hours per week
3. Prerequisites: 1051-716, Fourier Methods; 1051-719, Radiometry
4. Corequisites:  None
   

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Course Catalog Description
This course develops the requisite introductory knowledge in optics needed by a student in the graduate program in Imaging Science. The course will cover topics including geometrical optics, the Fresnel equations, diffraction, and resolution of imaging systems Class 4, Credit 4 (W)

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Class Meeting Times:
Classes meet during the scheduled time, MW 10AM - 12N EST. Offcampus students are urged to be online at this time, but the lectures will be recorded (assuming that everything works) for viewings/listenings at later times. I plan to use the same system used in 1051-716 Fourier Methods in 20081. I will write the material beneath the document video camera ("Elmo"); the pages of notes will be posted online after the course. I will be available during other times TBD for questions and other assistance.

Recommended Readings: As is generally true for all graduate courses, the scope of the material is not covered completely in any one book. Students should plan to spend some time in the library becoming familiar with the range of available books on the subject. 

Useful books that I suggest perusing:
Gaskill, Jack D., Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms, and Optics, John Wiley, 1978
Max Born and Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th Expanded Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Reynolds, DeVelis, Parrent, Thompson, The New Physical Optics Notebook, SPIE, 1989
Eugene Hecht, Optics, 4th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2002
F. Jenkins and H. White, Fundamentals of Optics, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1976
1. Pedrotti, Pedrotti, Pedrotti, Introduction to Optics, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007