| R. J. Wilkes |
Last updated: 5/7/12 | |
| ONLINE sessions in green | (parenthesis=chapter/section in old edition) | |
| Date | Topic | Readings (Pedrotti) |
| 27-Mar | Introduction, review of elementary optics; Paraxial thin-lens optics with matrices | Review your freshman physics text; Chs. 1 and 2 (Chs. 1 and 3); 18.1--18.5 (4.1--4.6) |
| 29-Mar | Mirrors and thin lenses (in B125) | Handouts |
| 3-Apr | System matrix and cardinal
points (JW AWAY: ONLINE ONLY) |
18.6--18.11 (4.7--4.11) |
| 5-Apr | Aberrations (JW AWAY: ONLINE ONLY) |
3.1--3.2, Ch. 20 (Ch. 5) |
| 10-Apr | Lens systems; optical
instruments (JW AWAY: ONLINE ONLY) |
Ch. 3 (Ch. 6) |
| 12-Apr | Cardinal points and aberrations; Optical instruments (B260) | - |
| 17-Apr | Sources of light, illumination; Detectors of light, the eye | Notes, 1.4 (2.1--2.5); 19.1--19.5 (2.6; 7.1--7.4) |
| 19-Apr | Illumination and vision; TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM ISSUED | - |
| 24-Apr | Wave optics, superposition; Interference, Michelson interferometer; TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM DUE | Chs. 4, 5 (8, 9); 7.1--7.3, 8.1--8.3 (10, 11.1-3) |
| 26-Apr | Michelson interferometer | - |
| 1-May | Fabry-Perot interferometer, thin films; Coherence; lasers and applications | 8.4--8.10, 7.4--7.9 (11.4--9); Chs. 6, 9 (12, 21); Ch. 27 (22) |
| 3-May | Fabry-Perot interferometer, thin films; | - |
| 8-May | Fraunhofer diffraction, gratings; Fresnel Diffraction | Chs. 11--12 (16, 17.1--4); Ch. 13 (18) |
| 10-May | NO LAB - go to V. Chaloupka lecture in A-102, 6:30 - 8pm | - |
| 15-May | Spatial filtering and image processing | Ch. 21 (25); notes; |
| 17-May | Diffraction | - |
| 22-May | holography; holograms | Ch. 16 (13) |
| 24-May | Spatial filtering | |
| 29-May | Polarization | |
| 31-May | Catchup session - special topics - student reports | TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM ISSUED |
| 5-Jun | TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM DUE | |