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 (PHY 223)
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 (PHY 223)
Course Outline
- Electromagnetic Radiation
- Radians, Steradians
- Projections
- Responsivity
- Lab: Flicker Photometry
- Radiometry
- Fund.\ Eq.\ of Radiometry
- Configuration Factors
- Non-Lambertian sources
- Lab: Radiance
- Optical Properties
- Fresnel Reflection
- absorption coefficient
- R, T, A
- Lab: Absorption
- Blackbodies
- Planck's Law
- Kirchoff's Law
- Color Temperature
- Lab: Tungsten Lamp
- Photometry
- Fund.\ Eq.\ of Photometry
- Tristimulus values
- Color Discrimination Mechanisms
- Lab: Color Matching
- Photovoltaic
- Intrinsic/Extrinsic Effects
- Quantum efficiency
- Noise
- Lab: Spectrometer 1
- Thermal detectors
- Thermal Effects
- Bolometer
- Pyroelectric
- Lab: Spectrometer 2
- Photoconduction
- Theory
- Noise
- Figures of Merit
- Lab: Pulse Oximeter 1
- Charge Transfer Devices
- Photovoltaic Effect
- Responsivity
- Noise
- Lab: Pulse Oximeter 2
- Spectroradiometer
- Design
- Calibration
- Performance
- Lab: none