Course Syllabus

Spring 2002

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Textbook:

Principles of Optics, Sixth Edition, by Max Born and Emil Wolf. Published by Pergamon Press (ISBN 0521642221).

Target Audience:

• This course is recommended for all engineers and physicists who need a quantitative understanding of optical imaging systems.

Overall goals of EE 6334:

• Acquire an overall understanding of the geometrical-optics limit of Maxwell's equations, the Hamiltonian approach to geometrical optics and the Gauss-Seidel theory of aberrations
• Acquire an understanding of the diffraction theory of aberrations
• Learn how to evaluate diffraction integrals using tools such as Mathematica and Matlab
• Acquire an understanding of the transfer function of an optical system in the linear, shift-invariant approximation

Syllabus:

1. The geometrical limit of Maxwell's equations
2. Geometrical optics: Hamiltonian formulation
3. Gauss-Seidel theory of aberrations
4. Review of diffraction theory
5. Diffraction theory of aberrations
6. Optical instruments
7. Optical transfer function and modulation transfer function