Fall 2009

ECE 460 Optical Imaging

Prof. Gabriel Popescu

Text: “Fundamentals of Photonics”, Saleh and Teich (2nd Edition, 2007)

Schedule: 14-15:15 T-R, 241 Everitt Lab; Teaching Assistants: Heitor David Pinto, email & Austin Kim, email

Office Hours: M 4-6 PM, Room 330 L and W 2-4 PM room 459EL

iOptics Seminar/ Lunch, Thursdays 12-1, MNTL 1000

#	Date	Book Chapter	Topic	Supporting Material	Homework	Links	Lab	Exams
30	Aug 25		Introduction			Optics puzzle	Lab Sections; Lab report guidelines
29	Aug 27	Appendix B	Math Toolbox	Math Toolbox	HW 1; Sol HW 1	Fourier transform- Wolfram
28	Sep 01	Appendix A	Math Toolbox			Fourier pairs- Wikipedia	1. Signal Processing; Mathematica file
27	Sep 03		Properties of Light	Properties of Light		Electromagnetic spectrum- Wikipedia
26	Sep 08		Properties of Light		HW 2; Sol HW 2		2. Spectroscopy
25	Sep 10	Chapter 1	Geometrical Optics	Geometrical Optics		Fermat’s Principle- Wikipedia
24	Sep 15		Geometrical Optics		HW 3; Sol HW 3	Fourier- Wikipedia	3. Ray optics
23	Sep 17	Chapter 2	Wave Optics	Fourier Optics
22	Sep 22		Wave Optics		HW 4; Sol HW 4	Diffraction - Wikipedia	4. Diffraction
21	Sep 24	Chapter 4	Fourier Optics			2D Fourier transforms
20	Sep 29		Fourier Optics			ImageJ- free download	5. Fourier Optics
19	Oct 01							Midterm 1
18	Oct 06	2-3:30PM, EVRT 151	Midterm 1			Microscopy Suite, Beckman, UIUC	6. Microscopy
17	Oct 08	Chapter 11	Microscopy	Microscopy	HW 5; File; sol HW5	Mandel & Wolf- classic paper on Coherence
16	Oct 13		Spatial Coherence	Statistical optics		Ernst Abbe, Frits Zernike	7. Spatial Coherence
15	Oct 15		Phase Contrast Microscopy			Michelson Interferometry- Wikipedia
14	Oct 20		Interference	Interferometry		R. J. Glauber- Nobel Lecture	8. Temporal Coherence; file-G(tau); m file
13	Oct 22		Temporal Coherence			OCT- review	Intro to aberrations
12	Oct 27		OCT				Optica I; download Mathematica engine
11	Oct 29		Chromatic Aberrations		HW 6; Sol HW6		download Optica applications
10	Nov 03		Geometric Aberrations			The eye- Wikipedia	Optica II
9	Nov 05	2-3:30PM, EVRT 260	Midterm 2				Optica Lab; Optica file	Midterm 2
8	Nov 10		Polarization	Polarization		Chapter 7. Review of EM fields	9. Polarization
7	Nov 12	Chapter 6	Waveplates		HW 7	“Greatness of Maxwell’s equations” by Prof. Rao
6	Nov 17	Chapters 8-9	EM fields	EM fields			10. Optical Fibers; Fiber1 ; Fiber2
5	Nov 19		Propagation at boundaries	Propagation at boundaries		The eye
	Nov 25		Break
	Nov 27		Break
4	Dec 01	Chapter 20	Electro-optics				11. Electro-optics/ Acousto-optics
3	Dec 03	Chapter 19	Accousto-optics
2	Dec 08		Final Review
	Dec 10		Reading Day
1	Dec 16	7-10 PM, TBA	Final Exam					Final Exam

Grading formula: Midterm 1 - 15%; Midterm 2 - 15%; Final - 20%; Homework - 20%; Lab report - 25%; Class participation - 5% .