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

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Course title and number of credits

Instructor
  Opti 200   Light, Color & Vision (3) Nofziger
  Opti 201R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics (3)  Dereniak
  Opti 201L   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics Lab (1)  Nofziger
  Opti 202R   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics II (3) Greivenkamp
  Opti 202L   Geometrical & Instrumental Optics II (1) Nofziger
  Opti 240   Semiconductor Physics & Lasers (3) Fallahi
  Opti 280   Computer Programming Workshop (1) Pau
  Opti 310   Physical Optics (3) Wright
  Opti 330   Physical Optics II (3) Tyo
  Opti 340   Optical Design (3) Dereniak
  Opti 360   Electronics for Opt. Engr. and Scientists (3) Shoemaker
  Opti 370   Lasers and Photonics (3)  Kueppers
  Opti 380A   Intermediate Optics Laboratory (1) Pau
  Opti 380B   Intermediate Optics Laboratory II (1) Nofziger
  Opti 400   Radiometry, Sources and Detectors (3) Thome
  Opti 404    (MSE) Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Potter
  Opti 410   Optical Fabrication and Testing (3) Creath
  Opti 414   Optical Instrumentation (3) Dereniak/Tkaczyk
  Opti 414A (ECE) Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Kostuk
  Opti 421   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering (3) Burge
  OPTI 423   Optomechanical Design and Analysis (3) Burge
  Opti 425    (MSE) Sol-Gel Science (3) Loy
  Opti 430 (ECE) Optical Communication Systems(3) Kueppers
  Opti 434 (MSE) Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials (3) Potter
  Opti 435   Visual Optics (3) Schwiegerling
  Opti 440   (PHYS) Medical Physics (3) Roehrig
  Opti 471A   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2)   Chipman
  Opti 471B   Advanced Optics Laboratory (2)  Hua
  Opti 473   (PHYS) Atomic Spectroscopy for Experimentalists (3) Bickel
  Opti 474   (PHYS) Atomic Physics for Experimentalists (3) Bickel
  Opti 487   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Kostuk
  Opti 489   Optics Outreach Laboratory (1) McCollough
  Opti 490    (REM) Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Huete / Yool
  Unvr 195A   Optics:  A Revolution in Light (1) Bickel
  Engr 498A   Capstone (3) Bailey
  Engr 498B   Capstone (3) TBA
         
  Graduate Courses  
         
  Opti 501   Electromagnetic Waves (3) Mansuripur
  Opti 502   Optical Design and Instrumentation (3) Greivenkamp
  Opti 504    (MSE) Optical Spectroscopy of Materials (3) Potter
  Opti 505R   Diffraction and Interferometry (3) Milster
  Opti 505L   Fundamentals of Physical Optics Lab (1) Milster
  Opti 507   Solid-State Optics (3) Peyghambarian
  Opti 508   Probability and Statistics in Optics (3) Kupinski
  Opti 509   Optical Design and Instrumentation II (3) Thome
  Opti 510R   Photonics (3) Pau
  Opti 510L   Fundamentals of Applied Optics Lab (1) Burge
  Opti 511R   Optical Physics & Lasers (3) Anderson
  Opti 511L   Lasers and Solid-State Devices Lab (1) Jones
  Opti 512R   Linear Systems, Fourier Transforms (3) Tyo
  Opti 512L   Mathematical Optics Lab (1) Kupinski
  Opti 513R   Optical Testing (3)  Wyant
  Opti 513L   Optical Testing Lab (1)  Wyant
  Opti 514A (ECE) Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems (3) Kostuk
  Opti 517   Lens Design (4)  Sasian
  Opti 518   Introduction to Aberrations (3) Sasian
  Opti 521   Introductory Opto-Mechanical Engineering Burge
  Opti 523   Optomechanical Design and Analysis Burge
  Opti 525    (MSE) Sol-Gel Science (3) Loy
  Opti 527   Holography & Diffractive Optics (3) Kostuk
  Opti 530    (ECE) Optical Communication Systems(3) Kueppers
  Opti 531   Image Processing Lab for Remote Sensing (3) Thome
  Opti 532    (ECE) Digital Image Analysis (3) Rodriguez
  Opti 533    (ECE) Digital Image Processing (3) Rodriguez
  Opti 534    (MSE) Advanced Topics in Opti and Electronic Materials (3) Potter
  Opti 535   Visual Optics (3) Schwiegerling
  Opti 536   Introduction to Image Science (3) Barrett / Gmitro
  Opti 537   Imaging Physics and Devices (3) Barrett / Furenlid
  Opti 539   Early Stage technology Start-up (3) Descour
  Opti 540   (PHYS) Medical Physics (3) Roehrig
  Opti 543   Quantum Mechanics for Optical Physics (3) Anderson
  Opti 544   Foundations of Quantum Optics (3) Khitrova
  Opti 546   Physical Optics (3) Wright
  Opti 548   Optical Properties of Solids (3) Binder
  Opti 550   Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (3) Thome
  Opti 553   Elements of Nonlinear Optics (2) Wright
  Opti 561   (PHYS) Physics of Semiconductors (3) Binder
  Opti 563   Photoelectronic Imaging Devices (3) Roehrig
  Opti 566   Optical Detectors & Detector Systems (3) Dereniak
  Opti 573   (PHYS) Atomic Spectroscopy for Experimentalists (3) Bickel
  Opti 574   (PHYS) Atomic Physics for Experimentalists (3) Bickel
  Opti 575   Optical Thin Films (3) Macleod
  Opti 576   Thin Film Optics (3) Falco
  Opti 578 (PHYS) Laser Spectroscopy & Atomic Structure (4) Cronin
  Opti 578X    Components and Systems (2) Fallahi
  Opti 587   Fiber Optics Laboratory (3) Kostuk
  Opti 588   Introduction to Display Science & Technology (3) Hua
  Opti 589   Optics Outreach Laboratory (1) McCollough
  Opti 590    (REM) Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth (3) Huete
  Opti 595A   Current Subjects in Optics--Colloquium (1) Pau
  Opti596C   Aberrated Imaging & Propagation (3) Mahajan
  Opti596DX   Imaging and Optics Fund in Advanced Lithography (2) Flagello
  Opti 597A   Optical Shop Practices (3) Sasian
  Opti 604   Mathematical Methods for Optics (3) Clarkson
  Opti 623   Polarized Light and Polarimetry (3) Chipman
  Opti 626   Diode Lasers and Opto-Electronics (3) Fallahi
  Opti 630   Biomedical Optics and Biophotonics (3) Gmitro/Utzinger
  Opti 632 (ECE) Advanced Optical Communication Systems (3) Djordjevic
  Opti 634 (ECE) Computational Sensing: Spectroscopy (3) Gehm
  Opti 636   Noise in Imaging Systems (3) Kupinski/Clarkson
  Opti 637   Principles of Image Science (3) Clarkson
  Opti 638   Advanced Medical Imaging (3) Gmitro/Trouard/Furenlid
  Opti 646   Intro to Quantum Information and Computation (3) Jessen
  Opti 648   Advanced Optical Physics (3) Jessen
  Opti 656A (ATMO) Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing A (3) Herman
  Opti 656B  (ATMO) Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing B (3) Kursinki
  Opti 677   Microfabrication in Opto-electronics (2) Fallahi
  Opti 680   Microcomputer Interfacing in the Optics Lab (3) Shoemaker
  OPTI689X   Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (1) Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696A   Advanced Lens Design Seminar (2) Sasian
  Opti 696B   Practical Optics Seminar (1) Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696C   Practical Optics (1) Burge/Zhao
  Opti 696D   Practical Optics: Engineering Optical Systems (1) Burge/Zhao
         

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