Other Participating Faculty:
Elliott
Horch, Assistant Professor, CIS
Mike
Kotlarchyk, Professor, Department of Physics, and Extended Faculty,
CIS
Bob MacIntyre,
Carlson Associate, CIS
This is currently an independent study course being taken by Robin Burton, but we hope to make it a regular part of the graduate optics track starting in the 2002-2003 academic year. The course will cover topics such as the basic physics of the atmosphere, its effect on electromagnetic propagation and image formation, scattering processes, and techniques used in astronomy and in remote sensing for imaging through the atmosphere. Below is a list of lecture topics for Fall, 2001. Lectures will be held in 76-2240.
| Date | Lecture | Topic (Presenter) | Reading | Links |
| Sep 19 | Lecture 01 | Introductory Review of Atmospheric Optics
(Robin Burton) |
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| Sep 26 | Lecture 02 | Molecular Model of Dispersion from a Linear Systems Perspective
(Roger Easton) |
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| Oct 03 | Lecture 03 | Molecular Model of Dispersion from a Physical Perspective
(Mike Kotlarchyk) |
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| Oct 10 | Lecture 04 | How Small Particles Scatter Light
(Mike Kotlarchyk) |
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| Oct 17 | Lecture 05 | Turbulence and What It Does to Images
(Roger Easton/Elliott Horch) |
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| Oct 24 | Lecture 06 | Speckle Theory and Speckle Image Reconstruction
(Elliott Horch) |
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| Oct 31 | Lecture 07 | Adaptive Optics
(Bob MacIntyre) |
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| Nov 07 | Lecture 08 | Lidar Systems
(Robin Burton) |
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| Nov 14 | Lecture 09 | Interferometric Detection
(Bob MacIntyre) |
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| Robin's Excel speadsheet on long and short exposure transfer functions |
Last Modified 10/23/2001 by Elliott Horch