Optical Sciences, Courses Summer 2000

Summer 2000 Course Descriptions
Key to Course Descriptions

Courses listed below are approved UA courses as of Summer 2000. Not all approved courses will be offered during this term. For course offerings/availability during a specific term, see the Schedule of Classes. Each course number below links to the Schedule of Classes.

Optical Sciences (OPTI) Dept Info

OPTI 210 Geometrical Optics (3) I Basic principles of light, refraction, reflection, properties of optical glass, prisms, paraxial optics, pupils and stops, visual and other basic instruments, aberrations, measurement and testing. P, MATH 125. (Identical with ECE 210).

OPTI 210L Geometrical Optics Laboratory (1) I Cleaning optics, measuring refractive indices, dispersing and deviating prisms, thin lenses, thick lenses, aberration evaluation, Keplerian and Galileo telescopes and compound microscopes. P, or CR, OPTI 210. (Identical with ECE 210L).

OPTI 226 Physical Optics (3) II Electromagnetic waves, plane harmonic waves, coherent and incoherent superposition of waves. Interference and diffraction of waves. Polarized light. P, OPTI 210, PHYS 241. (Identical with ECE 226).

OPTI 226L Physical Optics Laboratory (1) II Electromagnetic waves, plane harmonic waves, coherent and incoherent superposition of waves. Interference and diffraction of waves. Polarized light. P, or CR, OPTI 226. (Identical with ECE 226L).

OPTI 299 Independent Study (1-4) [Rpt./] I II

OPTI 299H Honors Independent Study (1-3) [Rpt./] I II

OPTI 342 Optical Systems Analysis (3) II Mathematical background, special functions, systems and operators, convolution, Fourier series, the Fourier transform, linear filtering, sampling, two-dimensional operations, applications in diffraction and image formation.

OPTI 350 Radiometry, Sources and Detectors (3) I Symbols, units and nomenclature, geometrical radiation transfer, radiometric instruments and measurements, black body radiation, practical radiation sources, noise and its effects, point and array detectors, detector interfacing. P, OPTI 226. (Identical with ECE 350).

OPTI 370 Lasers and Electro-Optical Devices (3) II Elements of solid state physics, laser physics and laser light, laser components, systems and measurements; display devices, light modulators, laser beam manipulation. (Identical with ECE 370).

OPTI 399 Independent Study (1-6) [Rpt./]

OPTI 399H Honors Independent Study (1-3) [Rpt./]

OPTI 412 Optical Instrumentation (3) I Microscopes, telescopes, cameras, high-speed photography, diffraction gratings, fiber optics, ophthalmic instruments; medical optical instruments, adaptive optics, optical scanners. P, OPTI 370. (Identical with ECE 412).

OPTI 416 Optical Design, Fabrication and Testing (4) II Aberrations of optical systems, balancing of aberrations, image quality measures, system analysis using ray trace code, lens design, optimization, optical materials, optical testing, knife edge test, interferometric testing, phase shifting interferometry, optical fabrication, lens mounting. P, OPTI 412. (Identical with ECE 416).

OPTI 420 Introductory Optomechanical Engineering (3) II Optical materials, principles of optomechanical design, lens and mirror mounting, tolerancing, specification of optical components.

OPTI 434 Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials (3) I 3ES. (Identical with MSE 434, which is home).

OPTI 470A Optics Laboratory (3) I Beam alignment, data acquisition and signal processing, spectrometers, incoherent sources, thermal and quantum detectors, array detectors and video, image acquisition and processing, optical properties of materials, polarization, scanners and modulators. P, ECE 351A; CR, OPTI 412. (Identical with ECE 470A).

OPTI 470B Optics Laboratory (3) II Coherent sources and gaussian beams, spatial filters, laser cavities and diode lasers, fiber optics, Fourier optics, holography, image quality and MTF, geometrical and interferometric optical testing. P, OPTI 470A; CR, OPTI 416. (Identical with ECE 470B).

OPTI 473 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists I (3) I (Identical with PHYS 473, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 573.

OPTI 474 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists II (3) II (Identical with PHYS 474, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 574.

OPTI 487 Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) II Fiber characteristics; fiber preparation; single and multimode fibers; sources; coupling; communication systems; multiplexing techniques; fiber-optic sensors. (Identical with ECE 487). May be convened with OPTI 587.

OPTI 490 Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) II (Identical with REM 490, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 590.

OPTI 498 Senior Capstone (1-3) I II

OPTI 498H Honors Thesis (3) [Rpt./ 2] I II

OPTI 499 Independent Study (1-6) [Rpt./] I II

OPTI 499H Honors Independent Study (3) [Rpt./]

OPTI 501 Electromagnetic Waves (3) I Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions, wave equation, vector and scalar potentials and gauges, green's function, reflection, refraction, polarized light, optics of crystals. P, PHYS 241.

OPTI 502 Introduction to Optical Design (3) I Rays and wavefronts, Snell's Law, mirror and prism systems, Gaussian imagery and cardinal points, paraxial ray tracing, stops and dispersion, systems of thin prisms, system analysis using ray trace code, chromatic aberrations and achromatization, monochromatic aberrations, ray fans, spot diagrams, balancing of aberrations, aspheric systems. P, PHYS 142 or PHYS 241.

OPTI 504 Mathematical Methods for Optics (3) I Complex variables, Fourier theory and applications to imaging, coherent and incoherent imaging, other integral transforms, special functions and orthogonal polynomials, linear algebra, integral equations, Green's functions. P, PHYS 142 or PHYS 241; MATH 223.

OPTI 505 Diffraction and Interferometry (3) II Interference and interferometry, concepts of coherence, holography, diffraction theory, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, volume diffraction, Gaussian beam propagation, optical transfer function, speckle. P, OPTI 501, OPTI 512.

OPTI 505L Fundamentals of Physical Optics Laboratory (1) II Laboratory in support of OPTI 501 and OPTI 505. P, OPTI 501 or OPTI 505.

OPTI 506 Radiometry and Detectors (3) II Generation and propagation of blackbody and other radiation, projected areas, solid angle, inverse square and other laws, isotropic and other surfaces, absorption, reflection, transmission, scattering, imaging and non-imaging detectors, figures of merit, noise, vision, color, film, calibration and measurement, spectrometers and radiometers. P, OPTI 502.

OPTI 507 Solid-State Optics (3) II Basic concepts in crystals and in optical response, optical properties of phonons and semiconductors, quantum wells, electro-optical properties of semiconductors, optical nonlinearities, solid state devices and laser diodes. P, OPTI 511 or PHYS 371.

OPTI 508 Probability and Statistics in Optics (3) II Probability theory, stochastic processes, optical applications, hypothesis testing and estimation. P, OPTI 504 or OPTI 512; OPTI 501.

OPTI 510L Fundamentals of Applied Optics Laboratory (1) II Optical systems; Gaussian optics, aberrations, radiometry, sources, detectors, optical engineering.

OPTI 511 Introduction to Optical Physics and Lasers (3) Classical dipole oscillator, microscopic theory of light-matter interactions, laser and other light sources, lasers, nonlinear optics. P, or CR, OPTI 501.

OPTI 511L Lasers and Solid-State Devices Laboratory (1) II Gas and semiconductor lasers, modes and beats, modelocking, spectrum analysis, exitons and quantum wells, noise, modulators and detectors, second-harmonic generation. P, OPTI 503 or OPTI 511; CR, OPTI 507.

OPTI 512 Introduction to Fourier Optics (3) I Mathematical background, convolution, the Fourier transform, linear filtering, two-dimensional operations, diffraction, image formation. P, PHYS 241 or PHYS 142; MATH 223.

OPTI 512L Mathematical Optics Laboratory (1) I Laboratory in support of OPTI 504, OPTI 508 and OPTI 512.

OPTI 513 Optical Testing (3) I Fringe analysis, wavefront aberrations and analysis, measurement of optical components, surface figure, surface finish, length, refractive index and transfer functions. P, OPTI 505.

OPTI 513L Optical Testing Laboratory (1) I Laboratory in support of OPTI 513. P, or CR, OPTI 513

OPTI 514 Aberration Theory (3) I Aberration theory; geometrical image formation; diffraction; pupil, spread, and transfer functions; random wavefront perturbations; system effects; image evaluation; image processing. P, OPTI 506.

OPTI 517 Lens Design (4) I Fundamentals of optical system layout and design; exact and paraxial ray tracing; aberration theory; chromatic and monochromatic aberrations; use of computer programs in lens design. P, OPTI 502.

OPTI 518 Introduction to Aberrations (3) II Advanced first-order tools, chromatic aberrations, monochromatic aberrations, sources of aberration, computation, simple systems.

OPTI 525 Wave Optics (3) II Students should gain a conceptual understanding of interference, coherence, diffraction, and the Abbe Theory of image formation through the use of phenomenological examples and simple models. Several in-class demonstrations and computer simulations are presented. P, OPTI 505.

OPTI 527 Holography (3) I Historical background; the Gabor hologram; the hologram as a zone plate; Fresnel, image, Fourier-transform, and reflection holograms; practical holography; limitations. P, OPTI 505. (Identical with ECE 527).

OPTI 529 Information and the Foundation of Physics (3) I Information theories of Shannon and Fisher. Second law and information. Measurement and likelihood theory. Probability- and physical-law estimation from new theory of information. P, OPTI 501 or PHYS 325 or equivalent. (Identical with PHYS 529).

OPTI 531 Image Processing Laboratory for Remote Sensing (3) I (Identical with ECE 531, which is home).

OPTI 532 Computer Vision (3) I (Identical with ECE 532, which is home).

OPTI 533 Digital Image Processing (3) II (Identical with ECE 533, which is home).

OPTI 534 Advanced Topics in Electronic Materials (3) [Rpt./ 2] I (Identical with MSE 534, which is home).

OPTI 538 Medical Optics (3) I Imaging methods in radiology, ultrasound, NMR, thermography, planar x-rays, classical tomography, computed tomography, gamma ray emission methods, positron imaging, digital radiography, xerographic methods. P, OPTI 512.

OPTI 539 Estimation Methods in Optics (3) I Bayesian MAP and MMSE estimation, maximum entropy estimates, restoration of images and spectra, phase retrieval, medical images, significance tests. P, OPTI 501.

OPTI 541 Introduction to Lasers (3) II Laser theory, properties of lasers, stimulated emission, dispersion theory, gain saturation and rate equations, optical resonators, mode locking, survey of laser types and mechanisms. P, OPTI 511.

OPTI 545 Nonlinear Optics (3) II Review of linear optics, quantum theory of optical susceptibilities; second-order nonlinearities, second-harmonic generation, three-wave mixing; third-order nonlinearities, Kerr-type nonlinearities, self-phase modulation, two-photon absorption, phase-conjunction, self-focusing, optical solutions, nonlinear fiber optics; stimulated scattering, Rayleigh wing, Brillouin and Raman scattering. P, OPTI 501, OPTI 511.

OPTI 550 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (3) I Historical development of remote sensing, the sun and the electromagnetic spectrum; radiometry; radiometry of optical systems; spectroradiometric instruments; reflectance, definitions and measurement; atmospheric properties, measurements and effects; satellite optical sensors; radiometic calibration of sensors; atmospheric correction.

OPTI 559 Infrared Techniques (3) II Radiometry review; the radiant environment; black body and other radiation; properties of materials; detectors; optical systems; scanners; system design techniques and examples.

OPTI 561 Physics of Semiconductors (3) I P, PHYS 570 or OPTI 507 recommended but not formally required, PHYS 460. (Identical with PHYS 561, which is home).

OPTI 563 Photoelectronic Imaging Devices (3) II Intensifiers; camera tubes; storage tubes; specifications; evaluation; applications, electron optics, human visual process, photon detection. P, PHYS 132.

OPTI 566 Optical Detectors (3) II Photodetectors, thermal and photoemitters: detectors, signal and noise mechanisms; figures of merit; limitations on the sensitivity of detectors; Infrared detectors; BLIP; ionizing radiation detection. P, OPTI 506, OPTI 507.

OPTI 568 Solid-State Imaging Devices (3) II Charge transfer devices, monolithic and hybrid focal planes, photoconductive, photovoltaic, and pyroelectric detectors, figures of merit, time-delay integration (TDI), fat zero, transfer efficiency, MTF, double-correlated sampling, input techniques, output techniques, buried channel vs. surface channel devices. Composite video characteristics. P, OPTI 507.

OPTI 572 Scanning Probe Microscopies (2) I II Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM): principles of operation, theoretical approaches and experimental results relating to surfaces of semiconductors, metals and superconductors and adsorbed molecules such as buckyballs. P, undergraduate quantum mechanics and solid state physics courses.

OPTI 573 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists I (3) I (Identical with PHYS 573, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 473.

OPTI 574 Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy for Experimentalists II (3) II (Identical with PHYS 574, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 474.

OPTI 576 Thin Film Optics (3) I Provides an understanding of some significant physical mechanisms involved in the growth, structure and optical properties of thin films. Content includes: basic electromagnetic theory of multilayer thin films with application to coating including antireflection, reflection, beam splitters, dichroic filters, and bandpass filters. Examples range from the visible to soft x-rays.

OPTI 587 Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) II For a description of course topics see OPTI 487. Graduate-level requirements include performance of a more advanced set of experiments and demonstration of a deeper knowledge of the subject. (Identical with ECE 587). May be convened with OPTI 487.

OPTI 590 Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) II (Identical with REM 590, which is home). May be convened with OPTI 490.

OPTI 595A Current Subjects in Optical Sciences (1) [Rpt./ 2] I II

OPTI 596E Issues in Science and Technology Policy (3) II (Identical with PHYS 596E, which is home).

OPTI 597A Optical Shop Practices (3) II Experience with various techniques to produce optical surfaces--a sphere, a flat, or a paraboloid. These surfaces can be used as the mail components of a simple telescope of four inches aperture. The emphasis of the course is to produce actual elements be applying abstract optical concepts.

OPTI 599 Independent Study (1-5) [Rpt./]

OPTI 622 Partial Coherence and Polarization (2) II Properties of the mutual coherence function. Image formation in partially coherent light. Michelson stellar interferometer, Fourier-transform spectroscopy. Coherency matrix, Stokes parameters and applications. P, OPTI 501 or OPTI 505.

OPTI 625 Optical Zingers (2) II A collection of simple-minded explanations or "The fine art of handwaving."

OPTI 626 Diode Lasers and Optoelectronics (3) I This course gives an understanding of the physics and technology of diode lasers, wave guides and photonic components. The main focus is on the operation and design concept of semiconductor lasers, various diode lasers and their performance. Recent developments in laser diodes and active photonic components are covered. Included are the state-of-the-art technology for monolithic integration of diode lasers with other optoelectronic components and their application for optical communication. P, OPTI 501.

OPTI 627 Computer Generated Holography (3) II CGH is the optical element most directly associated with the computer. The course will emphasize the mathematical tools while exploring the theory and some practice of computer holography. P, OPTI 527 or consent of instructor.

OPTI 637 Principles of Image Science (3) II Mathematical description of imaging systems and noise; introduction to inverse problems; introduction to statistical decision theory; prior information; image reconstruction and radon transform; image quality; applications in medical imaging; other imaging systems. P, OPTI 504 or OPTI 512; OPTI 508.

OPTI 638 Advanced Medical Imaging (3) II Describes the physical principles behind the medical cross-sectional imaging modalities of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), ultrasound (US), positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

OPTI 656A Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing (3) I (Identical with ATMO 656A, which is home).

OPTI 656B Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing (3) II (Identical with ATMO 656B, which is home).

OPTI 670 Principles of Optical Data Storage (3) II Optics of polarized light in systems of high numerical aperture; automatic focusing and tracking schemes; interaction of light with magnetic media; readout enhancement through multilayering; physical mechanisms of optical recording in ablative, phase-change, thermomagnetic and dye-polymer media; sources of noise in optical recording; data encoding schemes. P, consent of instructor.

OPTI 674 Optical Analysis with DIFFRACT (1) II How to use the DIFFRACT program for the design and analysis of optical systems that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary ray-trace programs.

OPTI 680 Microcomputer Interfacing in the Optics Laboratory (3) II Design, construction and use of microcomputer interfaces and assembly language software drivers. Laboratory exercises include interfaces with switches, relays, motors, terminals, A-to-D converters and D-to-A converters. P, C SC 115 or equivalent.

OPTI 690 Introduction to Opto-Mechanical Design (2) II GRD Optomechanics is emerging as an indispensable field to those involved in optical engineering. Every optical component in a system must be mounted and integrated into a structure in such a way that optical characteristics and physical integrity are preserved in the presence of a variety of physical influences. In this course the principles of optomechanics design are reviewed and illustrated in several case studies.

OPTI 696A Advanced Lens Design (2) I P, OPTI 517.

OPTI 697A Y, Y Bar Workshop (1) I 3L, 1R. P, understanding of 1st order properties of optical systems.

OPTI 900 Research (1-8) [Rpt./]

OPTI 909 Master's Report (1-3) [Rpt./]

OPTI 910 Thesis (1-8) [Rpt./]

OPTI 920 Dissertation (1-9) [Rpt./]

OPTI 930 Supplementary Registration (1-9) [Rpt./]

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