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Dr. James M. Palmer passed away on Thursday, January 4, 2007 after a courageous battle with cancer. His book, The Art of Radiometry, by James M. Palmer and Barbara G. Grant, is available from SPIE Press: http://spie.org/x648.html?product_id=798237 ISBN: 9780819472458. Vol: PM 184. 393 pages. Hardcover.
Contact Information: Ms. Cindy Gardner, Administrative Associate. Telephone: 520-621-3035. E-mail: cindy@optics.arizona.edu
Dr. Palmer's Faculty Web site: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/faculty/Resumes/Palmer.htm |
This course presents the rudiments of electronic circuits and design specifically tailored for the devices and instruments that optical engineers normally come in contact with. The course will be closely coordinated with OPTI 380B Intermediate Laboratory. Nine or ten experiments over the semester will be conducted, covering the major topics of OPTI 360. They include:
Basic Analytical Instruments (DMM, scope, fct gen, pwr supp)
Linear and nonlinear circuit elements
Transistors, Bipolar and JFET
Operational amplifiers I
Op-amps II, Active Filters, Oscillators, Voltage Regulators
Logic: gates, Flip-flops
Logic: counters, registers
Data Converters
Interfacing with Labview & Excel
This senior/graduate-level one semester course presents to the student both theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline of radiometry, the measurement of optical radiant energy, including the ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectral regions. The four broad areas covered are:
There are weekly homework problem sets; turn in one (1) week after assignment. Unexcused late homework receives half credit. Grading is based on homework (50%), one in-class mid-term exam (20%) and a 24-hour take-home final exam (30%). A draft of "The Art of Radiometry" is used as a text. A week-by-week outline of the course follows:
1. Introduction, demonstrations, units, symbols, terminology, definitions
2. Radiance, other radiometric quantities, basic radiative transfer
3. Configuration factors, radiometric calculations
4. Sources - blackbody radiation
5. Artificial sources of radiation
6. Natural sources of radiation
7. Basic detector mechanisms
8. Noise in detectors, thermal detectors
9. Photon detectors
10. Performance limits; imaging detectors: eye and film
11. Solid-state cameras, video
12. Electronics review, detector interfaces
13. Radiometric instrumentation
14. Radiometric measurements
15. Radiometric calibration, summary