Classes


For more information about each class, including prerequisites and a description of the work required, please follow the link at the course number.

Undergraduate courses are listed first, then the graduate courses. Textbook information is provided on each course syllabus.

Link directly to College of Optical Sciences class and exam schedules:


Course
Number

Home
Dept.

Course title and number of credits

Offered

Instructor

OPTI 200   Light, Color & Vision (3) Fall, Spring Nofziger
OPTI 201R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics (3)  Fall Nofziger
OPTI 201L   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics Lab (1)  Fall Nofziger
OPTI 202R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics II (3) Spring Peng
OPTI 202L   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics II (1) Spring Nofziger
OPTI 240   Semiconductor Physics & Lasers (3) Spring Fallahi
OPTI 280   Computer Programming Workshop (1) Spring Pau
OPTI 300   Practical Optics (3) Fall Dereniak
OPTI 310   Physical Optics (3) Fall Kolesik
OPTI 330   Physical Optics II (3) Spring Ashok
OPTI 340   Optical Design (3) Spring Takashima
OPTI 360   Electronics for Opt. Engr. and Scientists (3) Fall
Last Offered 2008
Shoemaker
OPTI 370   Lasers and Photonics (3)  Spring Binder
OPTI 380A   Intermediate Optics Laboratory (1) Fall Milster
OPTI 380B   Intermediate Optics Laboratory II (1) Spring Nofziger
OPTI 404   MSE Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Spring Potter
OPTI 406     Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors (3) Fall Barrett / Dubin
OPTI 414   Optical Instrumentation (3) Fall
Coming Soon
Liang
OPTI 414A ECE Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Spring Kostuk
OPTI 415   Optical Specifications, Fabrication & Testing (3) Spring Schwiegerling
OPTI 415L   Optical Specifications, Fab. & Testing Lab (1) Spring Schwiegerling
OPTI 416   Modern Astronomical Optics (3) Spring Guyon/ Burge/ Hinz
OPTI 421   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering (3) Fall Burge
OPTI 421L   Introductory Opto-Mech Engr Laboratory (1) Fall Burge
OPTI 423   Optomechanical Design and Analysis (3) Spring Burge
OPTI 423L   Optomechanical Engieering Lab (2) Spring Burge
OPTI 424A   Optical Systems Engineering (4) Spring Dubin / Burge
OPTI 425   MSE Sol-Gel Science (3) Fall Loy
OPTI 429   Integrated Optics for Information Technology(3) Fall Fallahi
OPTI 430   Optical Communication Systems(3) Fall Cvijetic
OPTI 434 MSE Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials (3) Fall Potter
OPTI 435   Visual Optics (3) Fall Schwiegerling
OPTI 441   Introduction to Lasers (3) Fall Maes
OPTI 447   Optical Physics (3) Spring Wright
OPTI 471A   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2) Fall Norwood
OPTI 471B   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2)  Spring Hua
OPTI 475   Optical Thin Films (3) Spring Macleod
OPTI 485   Illumination Engineering (3) Spring Koshel
OPTI 487   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2007)
Kostuk
OPTI 489   Optics Outreach (1) Fall, Spring Erwin
OPTI 489A   Optics Outreach, Pass/Fail (1) Fall, Spring Erwin
OPTI 490   REM Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Spring Huete / Yool
OPTI 492   Directed Research (1-6) All All Professors
ENGR 498A   Cross-disciplinary Design (3) Fall TBA
ENGR 498B   Cross-disciplinary Design (3) Spring TBA
         
Graduate Courses
OPTI 5XX   Waves in Nature (3) Spring Maes
OPTI 500A   Photonic Communications Engineering I A (1) Fall Kost
OPTI 500B   Photonic Communications Engineering I B (1) Fall Kost
OPTI 500C   Photonic Communications Engineering I C (1) Fall Kost
OPTI 500D   Photonic Communications Engineering II D (1) Spring Kost
OPTI 500E   Photonic Communications Engineering II E (1) Spring Kost
OPTI 500F   Photonic Communications Engineering II F (1) Spring Kost
OPTI 501   Electromagnetic Waves (3) Fall Mansuripur
OPTI 502   Optical Design and Instrumentation (3) Fall Greivenkamp
OPTI 502L   Fundamentals of Applied Optics Laboratory (1) Fall Su / Burge
OPTI 503   Optical Design and Instrumentation II (3) Spring Greivenkamp
OPTI 503A   Mathematical Methods for Photonics & Optics (3) Spring Mansuripur
OPTI 503B   Software Tools for Photonics (3) Spring He
OPTI 504  MSE Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Spring B. G. Potter
OPTI 505R   Diffraction and Interferometry (3) Spring Milster
OPTI 505L   Fundamentals of Physical Optics Lab (1) Spring Milster
OPTI 506     Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors (3) Fall Barrett / Dubin
OPTI 507   Solid-State Optics (3) Fall Binder
OPTI 508   Probability and Statistics in Optics (3) Spring Kupinski, Matthew
OPTI 509   Statistical Optics (3) Fall
Coming Soon
Ashok
OPTI 510R   Photonics (3) Spring Norwood / Pau
OPTI 511R   Optical Physics & Lasers (3) Spring Jones
OPTI 511L   Lasers and Solid-State Devices Lab (1) Fall Jones
OPTI 512R   Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms (3) Fall Tyo
OPTI 512L   Mathematical Optics Lab (1) Fall Kupinski, Matthew
OPTI 513R   Optical Testing (3)  Fall Wyant
OPTI 513L   Optical Testing Lab (1)  Fall Wyant
OPTI 514   Optical Instrumentation (3) Fall
Coming Soon
Liang
OPTI 514A ECE Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Spring Kostuk
OPTI 515   Optical Specifications, Fabrication & Testing (3) Spring Schwiegerling
OPTI 515L   Optical Specifications, Fabrication & Testing Lab (1) Spring Schwiegerling
OPTI 516   Modern Astronomical Optics (3) Spring Guyon/ Burge/ Hinz
OPTI 517   Lens Design (4)  Fall Sasian
OPTI 518   Introduction to Aberrations (3) Spring Sasian
OPTI 521   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering (3) Fall Burge
OPTI 521L   Introductory Opto-Mech Engr Laboratory (1) Fall Burge
OPTI 523   Optomechanical Design and Analysis(3) Spring Burge
OPTI 523L   Optomechancial Engineering Lab (2) Spring Burge
OPTI 524A   Optical Systems Engineering (4) Spring Dubin / Burge
OPTI 525  MSE Sol-Gel Science (3) Fall Loy
OPTI 526   Optical Design in Multiscale Photonic System (3) Fall Takashima
OPTI 527   Holography & Diffractive Optics (3) Fall Kostuk
OPTI 529   Integrated Optics for Information Technology(3) Fall Fallahi
OPTI 530   Optical Communication Systems(3) Fall Cvijetic
OPTI 531   Image Processing Lab for Remote Sensing (3) Fall
(Last Offered 2007)
OPTI 532  ECE Digital Image Analysis (3) Fall Rodriguez
OPTI 533  ECE Digital Image Processing (3) Fall Bilgin
OPTI 534  MSE Adv Topics in Optical and Electronic Materials (3) Spring Potter
OPTI 535   Visual Optics (3) Fall Schwiegerling
OPTI 536   Introduction to Image Science (3) Spring Gmitro/ Furenlid/ Barrett
OPTI 537   Imaging Physics and Devices (3) Fall Furenlid
OPTI 539A  From Photonics Innovation to the Marketplace (3) Spring Norwood
OPTI 540  PHYS Medical Physics (3) Fall Roehrig
OPTI 541   Introduction to Lasers (3) Fall Maes
OPTI 544   Foundations of Quantum Optics (3) Spring Jessen
OPTI 546   Physical Optics (3) Spring Wright
OPTI 547   The Beam Propagation Method (3) Fall 2011 Kolesik
OPTI 548   Optical Properties of Solids (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2009)
Binder
OPTI 549   Atom Optics (2) Spring Anderson
OPTI 550   Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (3) Fall
(Last Offered 2006)
TBD
OPTI 553   Nonlinear Photonics(3) Spring
Effective 2012
Norwood
OPTI 561  PHYS Physics of Semiconductors (3) Spring Binder
OPTI 562   Functional Nanostructures (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2010)
Khitrova
OPTI 566   Optical Detectors & Detector Systems (3) Spring Dereniak
OPTI 570A   Quantum Mechanics (3) Fall Anderson
OPTI 573  PHYS Atomic Spectroscopy for Experimentalists (3) Fall Bickel
OPTI 574  PHYS Atomic Physics for Experimentalists (3) Spring Bickel
OPTI 575   Optical Thin Films (3) Spring Macleod
OPTI 576   Thin Film Optics (3) Fall Falco
OPTI 577   Advanced Optical Interference Coatings Spring Kruschwitz
OPTI 578 PHYS Laser Spectroscopy & Atomic Structure (3) Fall Cronin
OPTI 583   Computational Optics (3) Spring
(Effective 2011)
Kolesik
OPTI 585   Illumination Engineering (3) Spring Koshel
OPTI 586   Polarization in Optical Design (3) Fall Chipman
OPTI 586L   Polarization in Optical Design Lab (1) Fall Chipman/Smith
OPTI 587   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2007)
Kostuk
OPTI 587L   Photonic Communications Laboratory (1) Spring
Kieu
OPTI 588   Introduction to Display Science & Technology (3) Fall Hua
OPTI 589   Optics Outreach Laboratory (1) Fall, Spring Erwin
OPTI 589A   Optics Outreach, Pass/Fail (1) Fall, Spring Erwin
OPTI 590  REM Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Spring Huete / Yool
OPTI 595A   Current Subjects in Optics — Colloquium (1) Fall, Spring Tyo
OPTI 596C   Aberrated Imaging & Propagation (3) Fall Mahajan
OPTI 597A   Optical Shop Practices (3) Spring Sasian
OPTI 597B   Technical Writing and Communication (3) Fall, Spring MacPherson
OPTI 604   Mathematical Methods for Optics (3) Fall Clarkson
OPTI 617   Advanced Optical Design (3) Spring
Coming 2013
Liang
OPTI 623   Polarized Light and Polarimetry (3) Spring Chipman
OPTI 626   Diode Lasers and Opto-Electronics (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2007)
Fallahi
OPTI 630   Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics (3) Fall Barton/ Gmitro/ Utzinger
OPTI 632 ECE Advanced Optical Communication Systems (3) Spring Djordjevic
OPTI 634 ECE Computational Sensing: Spectroscopy (3) Spring Gehm
OPTI 636   Noise in Imaging Systems (3) Fall Kupinski, Matthew
OPTI 637   Principles of Image Science (3) Spring Clarkson
OPTI 638   Advanced Medical Imaging (3) Spring Gmitro/ Furenlid/ Trouard
OPTI 646   Intro to Quantum Information and Computation (3) Fall Jessen
OPTI 648   Advanced Optical Physics (3) Spring
(Last Offered 2007)
Jessen
OPTI 656A ATMO Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing A (3) Fall
(Last Offered 2006)
TBD
OPTI 656B  ATMO Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing B (3) Spring Griffith
OPTI 671   Advanced Optical Networks (3) Spring
Effective 2013
Cvijetic
OPTI 677   Microfabrication in Opto-Electronics (2) Fall Fallahi
OPTI 680   Microcomputer Interfacing in the Optics Lab (3) Fall
(Last Offered 2007)
Shoemaker
OPTI 696A   Advanced Lens Design Seminar (2) Fall
(Last Offered 2007)
Sasian
OPTI 696B   Practical Optics Seminar (1) Fall
(Last Offered 2006)
Burge / Zhao
OPTI 696C   Practical Optics Seminar (1) Spring
(Last Offered 2009)
Burge / Zhao
OPTI 696D   Practical Optics Seminar: Engr Optical Systems (1) Fall Dubin / Burge
       

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