Week

Date

Topic

Presenter

Presenter Affiliation

Notes

1

Aug. 23

Introduction

Chunyu Zhao

U of A, COS

Lecture01

2

Aug. 30

Metrics for optical systems 

Jim Burge 

U of A, COS

Lecture02

3

Sep. 6

Plastics optics

Michael Schaub

Raytheon Missile Systems

Lecture03

4

Sep. 13

Optical alignment with point source microscope (PSM)

Bob Parks

Optical Perspective Group

Lecture04

Parks' papers

5

Sep. 20

Tolerancing optical systems

Jim Burge

U of A, COS

Lecture05

6

Sep. 27

Telescope optics

Jim Burge

U of A, COS

Lecture06

7

Oct. 4

IR optics

Rick Juergens

Raytheon Missile Systems

Lecture07

8

Oct. 11

Design of machine vision lenses

Jeremy Govier

Edmund Industrial Optics

Lecture08

9

Oct. 18

Optics rules of thumb

Chunyu Zhao

U of A, COS

Lecture09

10

Oct. 25

Practical interferometer design

James Millerd

4D Technology

Lecture10

11

Nov. 1

Illumination engineering

John Koshel

Lambda Research

Lecture11

12

Nov. 8

Lithographic lenses

David Williamson

Nikon

Lecture12

13

Nov. 15

Interferometer alignment

Sen Han

Veeco

Lecture13

14

Nov. 22

15

Nov. 29

Student presentations

Ronie George

Ovarian Cancer Detection

Lori Moore

Laser products

Dae Wook Kim

CCPM

Scott Gibb

Research projects & proposals

John Buchanan

Radiometric calibration

16

Dec. 6

Student presentations

Stacie Hvisc

GMT Alignment Sensitivities

Michel Lortie

Night Vision Goggles

Mark Nimmer

Thin Film Filters

Dan Roskey

Heterodyne Interferometer

16

Dec. 8

Student presentations

Tom Zobrist

Laser Tracker

Keith Powell

Dynamic Control of Optical systems, video 1, 2

Mir Salek

OLED

Leonnard Zugby

Liquid Lens