OPTI 201R                 Fall '11                      Syllabus         subject to change!--last updated 12-2-11

                                                                                                                         Re-organized the last few Lectures (L30-L35)
                                                                                                                         **********  MODIFIED HW12, problem 9.5

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Week # Class # Day Date

Topic                                                      Lecture Notes

Reading

HW
DUE

 HW
Solutions
 

1

 M 8/22 Basic concepts of geometrical optics, history of geometrical optics, EM waves, velocity of light, refractive index.

L1

 Ch. 1
"NN1"

 

  
1  2 W 8/24 Point sources, extended sources, geometrical aspects, wave fronts, rays, shadows, eclipses.

L2

  

 

  
  3 F 8/26 Optical path length (OPL). L3      
  4 M 8/29 Fermat’s principle, Law of Refraction, Snell’s Law. L4 Ch. 2
"NN2"

HW1

  
2 5 W 8/31 Fermat’s principle, Law of Reflection, Multi-Layer stack, Fresnel reflectance, TIR. L5 A1

 

  
  6 F 9/2 Handedness (parity), Plane Parallel Plate (PPP). L6      
 

7

 M 9/5 Labor Day--NO CLASS    

 

  
3 8 W 9/7 Concept of an image, Real/Virtual images and objects, The Pinhole Camera

L7

 Ch. 3
"NN3"		 HW2  
  9 F 9/9 Plane mirrors, deviating prisms, plane parallel plates, reduced thickness, TIR examples L8 Ch. 4
"NN4"

 

  
  10 M 9/12 Unfolding a prism, tunnel diagrams, dispersing prisms, dispersion, Abbe number L9 Ch. 4... HW3  
4 11 W 9/14 Properties of glass, glass materials, glass numbers, the glass chart, partial dispersion L10  

 

  
  12 F 9/16 Crown vs. flint glass-types, deviation by a prism, minimum angle of deviation, prism pairs L11  

 

  
  12 M 9/19 Optical spaces, sag of a spherical surface, the paraxial region. L12 Ch.5
"NN5"

 

  
5 13 W 9/21 Paraxial ray tracing, refraction and transfer equations, optical power. L13  

HW4

  
  14 F 9/23 Gaussian equation, focal points and lengths, single refracting surface.    

 

  
  15 M 9/26 Paraxial ray tracing, refraction and transfer equations L14 Ch.5    
6 16 W 9/28 Worked Examples.    

HW5

  
  17 F 9/30 Image formation, thin lenses, object/image conjugates, magnification    

 

  
  18 M 10/3 MIDTERM EXAM #1        
7 19 W 10/5 The Raytrace Table (examples)  Swimming Fish,    Problem 5.5 L14b      
  20 F 10/7 Thin lenses, lens types, shape factor L15 Ch. 6
"NN6"
(incomplete)		    
  21 M 10/10 Gaussian optics, cardinal points, object-image space mapping, collinear transformation L16
L16b		  

HW6

  
8 22 W 10/12 F/#, zz' diagrams, thin lens combinations,  back focal distance L17  

 

  
  23 F 10/14 Last day to DROP a class with a grade of W (if passing)        
  24 M 10/17 Thin lens combinations, cardinal points, Gaussian reduction, Gullstrand's equation, Newtonian optics L18   HW7  
9 25 W 10/19 Thick lens and lens system reduction examples  MIL-141 Eye Model L19      
  26 F 10/21 Thick lenses...  Lab 9-THICK LENSES L20 Ch. 7    
  27 M 10/24 Gaussian reduction... L21   HW8  
10 28 W 10/26 Gaussian reduction...examples L22      
  29 F 10/28 Gaussian reduction...The Focometer        
  30 M 10/31 Gaussian reduction...examples L23  

HW9

  
11 31 W 11/2 Gaussian reduction...The Cooke Triplet L24  

 

  
  32 F 11/4 Spherical and aspherical mirrors   Example 8.2(z=-60cm), Example 8.2(z=-∞) L25 Ch. 8    
  33 M 11/7   L26      
12 34 W 11/9   L27   HW10  
  35 F 11/11 Veteran's Day--NO CLASS        
  36 M 11/14 Optical apertures, stops and pupils L28 Ch. 9 HW11  
13 37 W 11/16 MIDTERM EXAM #2        
  38 F 11/18 Telecentricity, Aperture stop determination (Imaging Method), Critical distance
Problem 9.3(zc, entrance pupil)		 L29      
  39 M 11/21 Field stops L30  

 

  
14 40 W 11/23 F/# and Numerical Aperture, F/# sequence in a camera, F/# matching L31      
  41 F 11/25 Thanksgiving--NO CLASS        
  42 M 11/28 Chief and Marginal rays,  Optical ray and system scaling,
Aperture stop determination (Raytrace Method)		 L32 Ch. 10

 

  
15 43 W 11/30

Lagrange Invariant, uses of Lagrange invariant                        

L33      
  44 F 12/2 Vignetting L34  

 

  
  45 M 12/5 Rainbows L35  

 

  
16 46 W 12/7 LAST DAY OF CLASSES     Semester review    

HW12

  
                 
    M 12/12          
17   W 12/14 FINAL EXAM--8:00am-10:00 am in Room 410        
    F 12/16          
       

OPTI 201R