Catalog Description
Reflection and refraction at plane and curved surfaces; imaging properties of lenses; first-order Gaussian optics and thin-lens system layout; matrix optics; ray-tracing software; spherical and chromatic aberrations. Prerequisite: physics with calculus (PHY 223)
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, all students should be able to
- Calculate the effective, back, and front focal distances for a series of lenses
- Use two lenses to replicate an arbitrary lens system
- Differentiate and explain the uses of pupils, apertures, and field stops
- Explain, identify and minimize third-order optical aberrations
- Use ray tracing software to minimize spherical or chromatic aberrations
- Introduction
- Overview, Basics
- Safety
- Index of Refraction
- Lab: Snell's Law
- Gaussian Optics
- Cardinal Points
- Image Position
- Image Size
- Lab: Thin Lenses
- Paraxial Optics
- Ray Tracing
- Paraxial Approximation
- Thin Lens
- Lab: Beam Expanders
- Simple Optical Systems
- Separated Components
- Optical Invariant
- Matrix Optics
- Lab: Imaging
- Primary Aberrations
- Seidel Aberrations
- Chromatic Aberrations
- Wave Front Aberration
- Lab: Foucalt testing
- Prism and Mirror Systems
- Dispersing Prisms
- Plane Parallel Plates
- Plane Mirrors
- Lab: Spectroscopy
- Stops, Apertures, Pupils
- Aperture Stop
- Field Stop
- Depth of Focus
- Lab: Microscopes
- Optometry
- Structure of the eye
- Defects of the eye
- Vision correction
- Lab: Cylindrical Lenses
- Optical Materials
- Reflection
- Absorption
- Dispersion
- Lab: Glass and Plastic lenses
- Optical System Layout
- Telescopes
- Resolution
- Microscopes
- Lab: Mirror Telescope