Classes
                                                                               

For more information about each class, including prerequisites and a description of the work that our students do in each class, please follow the link at the course number.  Undergraduate courses are listed first, then the graduate courses.

Link directly to Optical Sciences class and exam schedules:

 

Course
Number

 Home
Dept.

Course title and number of credits

 Offered

Instructor
  Opti 200   Light, Color & Vision (3) Spring Nofziger
  Opti 201R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics (3)  Fall Dereniak
  Opti 201L   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics Lab (1)  Fall Nofziger
  Opti 202R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics II (3) Spring Greivenkamp
  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 310   Physical Optics (3) Fall Wright
  Opti 330   Physical Optics II (3) Spring Tyo
  Opti 340   Optical Design (3) Spring Dereniak
  Opti 360   Electronics for Opt. Engr. and Scientists (3) Fall Shoemaker
  Opti 370   Lasers and Photonics (3)  Spring Kueppers
  Opti 380A   Intermediate Optics Laboratory (1) Fall Pau
  Opti 380B   Intermediate Optics Laboratory II (1) Spring Nofziger
  Opti 400   Radiometry, Sources and Detectors (3) Fall Thome
  Opti 404    (MSE) Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Spring Potter
  Opti 410   Optical Fabrication and Testing (3) Fall Creath
  Opti 414   Optical Instrumentation (3) Fall  2009, 2011 Dereniak/Tkaczyk
  Opti 414A (ECE) Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Spring Kostuk
  Opti 421   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering (3) Fall Burge
  Opti 421L   Introductory Opto-Mech Engr Laboratory (1) Fall Burge / Parks
  OPTI 423   Optomechanical Design and Analysis (3) Spring Burge
  Opti 425    (MSE) Sol-Gel Science (3) Fall Loy
  Opti 430 (ECE) Optical Communication Systems(3) Fall Kueppers
  Opti 434 (MSE) Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials (3) Fall  2009, 2011 Potter
  Opti 435   Visual Optics (3) Fall Schwiegerling
  Opti 440   (PHYS) Medical Physics (3) Fall Roehrig
  Opti 471A   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2)   Fall Chipman
  Opti 471B   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2)  Spring Hua
  Opti 473   (PHYS) Atomic Spectroscopy for Experimentalists (3) Fall Bickel
  Opti 474   (PHYS) Atomic Physics for Experimentalists (3) Spring Bickel
  Opti 487   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Spring Kostuk
  Opti 489   Optics Outreach Laboratory (1) Fall, Spring McCollough
  Opti 490    (REM) Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Spring Huete / Yool
  Unvr 195A   Optics:  A Revolution in Light (1) Spring Bickel
  Engr 498A   Capstone (3) Fall Pine
  Engr 498B   Capstone (3) Spring Pine
           
  Graduate Courses    
           
  Opti 501   Electromagnetic Waves (3) Fall Mansuripur
  Opti 502   Optical Design and Instrumentation (3) Fall Greivenkamp
  Opti 504    (MSE) Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Spring Potter
  Opti 505R   Diffraction and Interferometry (3) Spring Milster
  Opti 505L   Fundamentals of Physical Optics Lab (1) Spring Milster
  Opti 507   Solid-State Optics (3) Fall Peyghambarian
  Opti 508   Probability and Statistics in Optics (3) Spring Kupinski
  Opti 509   Optical Design and Instrumentation II (3) Spring Thome
  Opti 510R   Photonics (3) Spring Pau
  Opti 510L   Fundamentals of Applied Optics Lab (1) Fall Burge
  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) Spring Shoemaker
  Opti 513R   Optical Testing (3)  Fall Wyant
  Opti 513L   Optical Testing Lab (1)  Fall Wyant
  Opti 514A (ECE) Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Spring Kostuk
  Opti 517   Lens Design (4)  Fall Sasian
  Opti 518   Introduction to Aberrations (3) Spring Sasian
  Opti 521   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering Fall Burge
  Opti 521L   Introductory Opto-Mech Engr Laboratory (1) Fall Burge / Parks
  Opti 523   Optomechanical Design and Analysis Spring Burge
  Opti 525    (MSE) Sol-Gel Science (3) Fall Loy
  Opti 527   Holography & Diffractive Optics (3) Fall Kostuk
  Opti 530    (ECE) Optical Communication Systems(3) Fall Kueppers
  Opti 531   Image Processing Lab for Remote Sensing (3) Fall Thome
  Opti 532    (ECE) Digital Image Analysis (3) Fall Rodriguez
  Opti 533    (ECE) Digital Image Processing (3) Fall Rodriguez
  Opti 534    (MSE) Adv Topics in Opti and Electronic Materials (3) Spring 2008, 2010 Potter
  Opti 535   Visual Optics (3) Fall Schwiegerling
  Opti 536   Introduction to Image Science (3) Spring Barrett / Gmitro
  Opti 537   Imaging Physics and Devices (3) Fall Barrett / Furenlid
  Opti 539   Early Stage technology Start-up (3) Fall Descour
  Opti 540   (PHYS) Medical Physics (3) Fall Roehrig
  Opti 543   Quantum Mechanics for Optical Physics (3) Fall Anderson
  Opti 544   Foundations of Quantum Optics (3) Spring Khitrova
  Opti 546   Physical Optics (3) Spring Wright
  Opti 548   Optical Properties of Solids (3) Spring Binder
  Opti 550   Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (3) Spring Thome
  Opti 553   Elements of Nonlinear Optics (2) Fall 2009, 2011 Wright
  Opti 561   (PHYS) Physics of Semiconductors (3) Fall Binder
  Opti 563   Photoelectronic Imaging Devices (3) Spring 2008, 2010 Roehrig
  Opti 566   Optical Detectors & Detector Systems (3) Spring 2009, 2011 Dereniak
  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 2008, 2010 Macleod
  Opti 576   Thin Film Optics (3) Fall Falco
  Opti 578 (PHYS) Laser Spectroscopy & Atomic Structure (4) Fall Cronin
  Opti 578X    Components and Systems (2) Fall 2009, 2011 Fallahi
  Opti 587   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Spring Kostuk
  Opti 588   Introduction to Display Science & Technology (3) Fall Hua
  Opti 589   Optics Outreach Laboratory (1) Fall, Spring McCollough
  Opti 590    (REM) Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Spring Huete
  Opti 595A   Current Subjects in Optics--Colloquium (1) Fall, Spring Pau
  Opti596C   Aberrated Imaging & Propagation (3) Fall Mahajan
  Opti596DX   Imaging and Optics Fund in Adv Lithography (2) Fall 2009, 2011 Flagello
  Opti 597A   Optical Shop Practices (3) Spring Sasian
  Opti 604   Mathematical Methods for Optics (3) Fall Clarkson
  Opti 623   Polarized Light and Polarimetry (3) Spring Chipman
  Opti 626   Diode Lasers and Opto-Electronics (3) Spring 2009, 2011 Fallahi
  Opti 630   Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics (3) Fall Gmitro/Utzinger
  Opti 632 (ECE) Advanced Optical Communication Systems (3) Fall Djordjevic
  Opti 634 (ECE) Computational Sensing: Spectroscopy (3) Spring Gehm
  Opti 636   Noise in Imaging Systems (3) Fall 2008, 2010 Kupinski/Clarkson
  Opti 637   Principles of Image Science (3) Spring 2008, 2010 Clarkson
  Opti 638   Advanced Medical Imaging (3) Spring Gmitro/Trouard/Furenlid
  Opti 646   Intro to Quantum Information and Computation (3) Spring 2009, 2011 Jessen
  Opti 648   Advanced Optical Physics (3) Spring 2008, 2010 Jessen
  Opti 656A (ATMO) Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing A (3) Fall Herman
  Opti 656B  (ATMO) Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing B (3) Fall Kursinki
  Opti 677   Microfabrication in Opto-electronics (2) Fall 2008, 2010 Fallahi
  Opti 680   Microcomputer Interfacing in the Optics Lab (3) Fall 2009, 2011 Shoemaker
  OPTI689X   Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (1) Fall 2009, 2011 Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696A   Advanced Lens Design Seminar (2) Fall 2009, 2011 Sasian
  Opti 696B   Practical Optics Seminar (1) Fall 2009, 2011 Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696C   Practical Optics (1) Spring Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696D   Practical Optics: Engineering Optical Sys (1) Fall 2008, 2010 Burge/Zhao
           

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