OPTI 510L – Fundamentals of Applied Optics Lab

Instructors:

Teaching Assistant:

 

Dr. Peng Su                             

Optical Sciences 633   

Office Number: (520) 626-5790

psu@optics.arizona.edu

 

Prof. Jim Burge

Optical Sciences 733   

(520)  621-8182

jburge@optics.arizona.edu

 

 

Yu-Hsiang (Sean) Lai

yhlai@optics.arizona.edu

                                 

Discussion Board

 

Updates

Lab Schedule

 

Labs

Lab handout

Class notes

Reference material

Introduction to 510L
Lab #1 – Orientation, mechanical measurements Lecture 1

Error Analysis

Measurement Uncertainty

Wringability and Gage Blocks.doc

Precision Measuring With Calipers.doc

Lab #2 – Images, prisms, mirrors Lecture 2

Shack’s prism program (fixed)

Notes on Prisms

Mirror Matrices

Lab #3 – Thin lenses and alignment Lecture 3

Notes on first order optics

Notes on line of sight and coordinates

LOS and Pointing (Burge paper)

Paraxial Properties

Using Alignment Telescope

Lab #4 – First-order design and assembly Lecture 4

Notes on Optical Systems

Eye Models (Schwiegerling lecture)

List of Available Lenses in Lab

Installing Zemax on to your computer

Lab #5 – Lens layout and construction Lecture 5 Nodal Slide

Eidolon Nodal Slide

 

Lab #6 - Telephoto Lens and Zoom Lens

 

Lecture 6 Zemax File
 

Lab #7 – Illumination

 

Lecture 7 Microscopy website
Lab #8 – Aberrations I Lecture 8

Lab 8  files

Airy Setup

Lab #9 – Aberrations II Lecture 9

Lab 9 files

Coma setup

Coma setup figures

Coma File

 

Lab #10 – Radiometry

 

Lecture 10  
Special Assignment

 

Other Reference Material

1. Mil-Hdbk-141 (get it in pieces):

TOC – Chap.6

Chap. 7 – 12

Chap. 13 – 16

Chap. 17 – 20

Chap. 21 – 23

Chap. 24 – index