Catalog Description
Fundamentals of radiometry and photometry; detection of light using thermal and photon (photoemissive, photoconductive, and photovoltaic) methods; noise processes; blackbodies; charge transfer devices; spectroradiometry. Prerequisites: physics with calculus (PHY 223), Circuits II (EE 223)
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students should be able to
- Use conservation of radiance to solve radiometry problems
- Convert radiometric and photometric units in photopic, mesotopic, and scotopic situations
- Apply Planck's law, Stefan-Boltzmann's law, and Wien's law appropriately
- Quantify the response and noise sources for optical detection using a thermistor or bolometer
- Explain the differences between photoconduction and photovoltaic detection
- Describe the responsivity and noise sources for unbiased and reverse-biased photodiodes
- Light
- Safety
- Radians, Steradians
- Inverse Square Law
- Lab: Photometer
- Radiometry
- Fundamental Equation of Radiometry
- Approximations
- Configuration Factors
- Lab: Radiance Invariance
- Photometry
- Fundamental Equation of Photometry
- Photometric units
- The Eye
- Lab: Colorimetry
- Optical Properties
- Fresnel Reflection
- absorption coefficient
- $R$, $T$, $A$
- Lab: Neutral Density Filters
- Blackbodies
- Planck's Law
- Stefan-Boltzmann Law
- Color Temperature
- Lab: Lamp Temperature
- Photovoltaic
- Photovoltaic Effect
- Responsivity and quantum efficiency
- Noise
- Lab: Diodes
- Thermal detectors
- Thermal Effects
- Bolometer
- Pyroelectric
- Lab: Thermopile
- Photoconduction
- Theory
- Noise
- Figures of Merit
- Lab: CdS detector
- Charge Transfer Devices
- Photovoltaic Effect
- Responsivity and quantum efficiency
- Noise
- Lab: Linear Array
- Spectroradiometer
- Design
- Calibration
- Performance
- Lab: Spectroradiometer