EECS 119

Introduction to Optical Engineering

Syllabus

Instructor

Office Hours

Jeffrey Bokor
jbokor@eecs
510 Sutardja-Dai Hall
Fri. 10-11AM

Office Hours

Xi Luo

xiluo@eecs

TBD

About Class

Unit Value: 3units
Class hours: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Class time and location: Tu, Th 3109 Etcheverry Hall

Discussion Session: M 5-6pm 3109 Etcheverry
Prerequisites: Physics 7C

Class Homepage:

www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee119

Required Texts

Optics, 4th edition, by Eugene Hecht, (Addison Wesley Longman, 2002)

Suggested references

Modern Optical Engineering, 3th ed., Warren J. Smith, Mc Graw Hill, 2000)

Grading

Lab and Class Participation	10%
Homework	15%
Midterm	20%
Project	25%
Final	30%

Homework

Will emphasize design and application of optical systems
Collaboration is encouraged, but everyone must turn in their own solutions.

Materials to be covered

1.Propagation of light. Snell`s law and Huygen`s principle. Refraction and reflection. Plane waves, spherical waves and image formation. Total internal reflection. Polarization, polarizers, and wave-plates.

2.Lenses and aberrations. Phase retardation by thin lenses. Lens laws and formation of images. Resolution and primary aberrations. Prism devices Various optical material types, crown and flint glass, fused silica, low thermal expansion glasses.

3.Simple optical instruments. Optical properties of the human eye. Still cameras, shutters, apertures, photographic film. Telescopes, atmospheric distortion, the Hubble Space Telescope. Microscopes. Projection systems.

4.Detectors. Semiconductor detectors, including pn junction diodes, PIN diodes. Solar cells. Photomultipliers. CCD image array detectors. Microchannel plate image intensifiers.

5.Light modulators. Liquid crystal light valves and flat panel displays. Deformable mirror array devices.

6.Illuminators and condensers. Field uniformity and light collection efficiency. Light sources.

7.Lasers. Optical gain. Spontaneous and stimulated emission. Population inversion. Optical feedback and resonant cavities. Laser modes. Spectral bandwidth and coherence length. Examples of laser types including diode laser, gas laser. Harmonic generation.

8.Diffraction theory. Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction. Fresnel zone plate.

9.Interference. Young`s 2 slit experiment and fringe visibility. Michelson Interferometer. Multiple beam interference and thin film coatings.

10.Fiber optics. Waveguides and modes. Fiber coupling. Types of fiber: single and multi-mode. Fiber communication systems including couplers and switches, time division and wavelength division multiplexing. Fiber dispersion. Fiber amplifiers.