Optics 400/500 Radiometry, Sources and Detectors is a senior/graduate level course, required in the BSOSE curricula, and optional for graduate students who want more than a measly half-semester of this really useful stuff.
The four broad areas that will be covered are:
1. Generation and modification of optical radiant energy
2. Propagation of optical radiant energy, geometrical and spectral
3. Optical radiation detectors and instrumentation
4. Measurement and calibration of optical radiation
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OPTI 400/500. Radiometry, Sources and Detectors (3) I. Symbols, units and nomenclature; geometrical radiation transfer, blackbody radiation, optical radiation sources;
optical radiation detectors and noise; radiometric instruments and detector interfaces; radiometric measurements and calibration. P, OPTI 201R, 201L, 360 or equivalent, 380B.
Course Outline (Three 50-minute lectures per week)
1. Introduction, demonstrations, units, symbols, definitions, areas, solid angles.
2. Radiance, throughput, other radiometric quantities, laws and maxims.
3. Basic radiative transfer, configuration factors, examples.
4. Radiometric properties of materials - transmission, reflection.
5. Sources - blackbody radiation, incandescent sources.
6. Natural and luminescent radiation sources , atmospheric emission and transmission.
7. Basic detector mechanisms, noise in detectors, thermal detectors.
8. Quantum detectors (photoemissive, photoconductive, photovoltaic)
9. Detector performance limits, imaging detectors, video, camera tubes.
10. Charge transfer, solid-state arrays, eye and vision, photographic film.
11. Electronics review, detector electronics.
12. Radiometric and spectroradiometric instruments, signal processing.
13. Radiometric measurements, photometry, measurement of color.
14. Measurement of material properties and temperature.
15. Radiometric calibration, summary.
Grading Criteria:
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Homework 40% |
Homework 40% |
Homework assignments will include one additional problem required for graduate students. Undergraduate students may work this problem for extra credit. The final exam will also include an additional component for graduate students. Note that undergraduate students in the Honors program can register for OPTI500 and receive honors credit.
