University of Colorado Boulder - First Order Optical System Design

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Duration	21 hours
Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Advanced
Official Website	Explore Free Course
Credential	Certificate

First Order Optical System Design

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This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, 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. When you finish this course, you will be able to design, to first order, such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques. This first order design will allow you to develop the foundation needed to begin all optical design as well as the intuition needed to quickly address the feasibility of complicated designs during brainstorming meetings. You will learn how to enter these designs into an industry-standard design tool, OpticStudio by Zemax, to analyze and improve performance with powerful automatic optimization methods.

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Curriculum

Introduction to Geometrical Optics

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Geometrical Optics

What are rays?

Pinhole Camera

Rays in OpticStudio

Snells Laws

Fermat's Principle

Snell's Laws in the Laboratory

PhET Hands-On Practice

Course Overview

Tools and Resources

Snell's Law Practice Problem

Practice problems

Rays and Snell's Laws

Optical System Design in OpticStudio

Introduction to OpticStudio

System Explorer and the Lens Data Editor

Entering a Lens

Analyzing a Lens

The Lens Catalog

Configurations

Optimization

Introduction

How to get started using OpticStudio

Getting started with designing a lens in OpticStudio

Setting up your lens in OpticStudio

Define multiple inputs to your lens using OpticStudio

Analyze the performance of your lens

First Order Ray Tracing

Jargon and Sign Convention

Example of Sign Convention

Graphical Ray Tracing

Virtual Objects and Images

PhET Lens Practice

Positive and Negative Lens Laboratory Demonstration

Thin Lens Equations

Imaging with Mirrors

Single Lens Imaging Example

Mirror Laboratory Demonstration

Lenses vs. Mirrors

Paraxial Analysis in OpticStudio

Practice ray tracing

Practice problem

Practice Questions

Ray Tracing and Lens Analysis

Thick Optics and Mirrors

Optical Path Length of a Paraxial Lens

Power of a Single Curved Surface

Lens Maker's Equation

Power of Curved Mirrors

Two Lens System

Design with Thick Optics

Applying Thick Optics Concepts

Thick Lens Application

Extension of thick lenses

Practice

OpticStudio practice

Thick Optics Practice Problems

Thick Optics

First-Order Ray Tracing of Multi-Element Systems

Tabular first-order ray tracing

Example of Tabular First-Order Ray Tracing

Another Example of First-Order Tabular Ray Tracing

Symbolic Tabular First-Order Ray Tracing

First-order ray tracing with ABCD matrices

Example of ABCD matrices

Properties of the Conjugate Matrix

The Form of the Conjugate Matrix

Relating the Conjugate to the System Matrix

Properties of the 2 Lens System

Introduction

Practice on your own

Background on matrices

OpticStudio practice

yu Tracer & ABCD Matrix Practice

yu Tracer and ABCD Matrices

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Sonia Singh

First Order Optical System Design

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Other: Really nice course with very clear explanations of the principles of optical engineering and learn how to use ZEMAX Opticstudio to simulate your optical system

Reviewed on 13 Nov 2020Read More

Praveen Kumar

First Order Optical System Design

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Other: Good course, explanations are clear and concise and I got a good learning. Tricky exercises! Perhaps more exercises with quantstudio would have been nice.

Reviewed on 13 Nov 2020Read More

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