University of Colorado Boulder - Design of High-Performance Optical Systems
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Duration | 23 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Advanced |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Design of High-Performance Optical Systems at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
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- Graded Programming Assignments.
Design of High-Performance Optical Systems at Coursera Course details
- This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5602, part of CU Boulder?s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
- Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course extends what you have learned about first-order, paraxial system design and optical resolution and efficiency with the introduction to real lenses and their imperfections. We begin with a description of how different wavelengths propagate through systems, then move on to aberrations that appear with high angle, non-paraxial systems and how to correct for those problems. The course wraps up with a discussion of optical components beyond lenses and an excellent example of a high-performance optical system ? the human eye. The mathematical tools required for analysis of high-performance systems are complicated enough that this course will rely more heavily on OpticStudio by Zemax. This will allow students to analyze systems that are too complicated for the simple analysis thus far introduced in this set of courses.
Design of High-Performance Optical Systems at Coursera Curriculum
Chromatic Aberrations
Introduction to the course
Introduction to Chromatic Aberration
Chromatic Aberration Lab Demonstration
Abbe Number
Prism Dispersion
Lens Dispersion
Lens Dispersion Singlet Dispersion from V
Singlet in OS
Compare Singlet in OS to Formula
Achromatic Doublet Introduction
Achromatic Doublet Solution
Achromatic Doublet in OpticStudio
Compare Doublet in OS to Formula
How to Choose a Glass
Huygens Eyepiece
Course Overview
Tools and Resources
Abbe Number Practice
Chromatic Aberrations
Ray Aberrations
Maxwell's Conditions
Abbe Sine Condition
Airy Tangent Condition
Equivalent Refracting Surface
Introduction to Aberrations
Ray and Wavefront Aberrations
Longitudinal Ray Aberrations
Ray Aberration Polynomial I
Ray Aberration Polynomial II
Defocus and Magnification
Spherical Aberration Lab Demonstration
Spherical Aberration Introduction
Spherical Ray Aberration
Spherical Wavefront Aberration
Coma Introduction
Coma Ray and Wavefront Aberration
Astigmatism Introduction
Astigmatism Ray and Wavefront Aberration
Coma and Astigmatism Lab Demonstration
Summary of Ray Aberrations
Ray and Wavefront Aberration Practice
Spherical Aberration Background
Coma Practice
Astigmatism Practice
Aberration Identification
Wavefront and ray aberrations
Field Curvature and Distortion
Petzval Introduction
Petzval Wavefront Error
Petzval and Astigmatism
What is Petzval Radius?
Distortion Introduction
Distortion Wavefront
Summary of Ray Aberrations
Impact of Aberrations on Focal Length
Zernike Polynomials
Strehl Ratio
Intro to Seidel Sums
Simple Seidel Example
Complex Seidel Example
Petzval Practice
Distortion Practice
OpticStudio Practice
Aberration Practice
Seidel practice
Field Curvature and Distortion
Techniques for Reduction of Aberrations
Stop Down System
Bending the Lens
Refractive Index
Stop Shift
Symmetry
Field Curvature and Negative Power
Field Flattener
Field Lens
Conic Mirrors
Reflective Telescopes
Stop shift OpticStudio Practice
Symmetric Singlets OpticStudio Practice
Field Lens Practice
Mirror OpticStudio Practice
Techniques for Reduction of Aberrations
Optical Components
Prisms that Fold
Prism Tunnel Diagrams
Prisms for Control I: Anamorphic prisms
Prisms for Control II
Prisms Laboratory Demonstration
GRIN Lens Introduction
GRIN Lens Details
Diffraction Gratings Introduction
Diffraction as Momentum Conservation
Grating Equation
Finite Width Grating
Resolving Power of Grating
Resolving Power of Grating vs. Prism
Gratings vs. Prisms Lab Demo
Introduction to Fresnel Lenses
Design of Fresnel Lens
Wavelength Dependence of a Fresnel Lens
Evolution of the Eye
Physiology of the Eye
Performance of the Eye
Aberrations of the Eye
Acuity of the Eye
Accommodation
Reduced Eye Model
A Better Eye Model
Ray Tracing the Eye
OpticStudio Practice with Diffraction Gratings
Diffractive Lenses
OpticStudio Analysis of a GRIN lens
Visual magnification practice
Optical Components
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