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Course format: Lectures and Recitations
Fall 2013 Weekly hours: 3 lecture + 1 recitation
1) Course objectives:
This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of Fourier optics, the basics behind analyzing and designing optical systems and the physics of transformational optics.
2) Course format:
Frontal lectures and recitations – in the classroom.
Materials posted on Moodle (lemida.biu.ac.il)
3) Course content:
Week |
Topic |
Reading from Goodman |
1 |
Basic concepts: Introduction, diffraction of light, Rayleigh-Sommerfeld equations. |
Ch. 1 |
2 |
Linear systems, Fourier transform in two dimensions, impulse response, and angular spectrum. |
Ch. 2-3 |
3 |
Fraunhofer approximation, Fresnel approximation, thin lenses, optical system with one lens. |
Ch. 4-5 |
4 |
Imaging system, coherent and non-coherent light. |
Ch 6 |
5 |
Imaging systems with non-coherent light, OTF vs CTF. |
Ch 8 |
6 |
Spatial optical data processing, anamorphic systems, Vanderlugt filter. |
Ch 8 |
7 |
Holography. |
Ch 9 |
8 |
SLM, computer generated hologram, AOM. |
Ch. 7 |
9 |
Introduction to transformational optics. |
Leonhardt |
10 |
Metamaterials. |
Leonhardt |
11-12 |
Transformational optics. |
Leonhardt |
13 |
Review. |
4) Prerequisites:
Introduction to modern optics and electro optics.
5) Course requirements:
Weekly or biweekly homework assignments.
6) Grading:
Final exam: 90% ; Homework exercises: 10%
7) Textbooks and supplementary reading:
Introduction to Fourier optics by J.W. Goodman.
Transformational optics and geometry of light by U. Leonhardt and T.G. Philbin.