Fourier Transform of the Gaussian Beam - Optical Efficiency and Resolution
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Fourier Transform of the Gaussian Beam - Optical Efficiency and Resolution
Optical Engineering Specialization
This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5601, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course will teach you how to design such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques. The first order optical system design covered in the previous course is useful for the initial design of an optical imaging system but does not predict the energy and resolution of the system. This course discusses the propagation of intensity for Gaussian beams and incoherent sources. It also introduces the mathematical background required to design an optical system with the required field of view and resolution. You will also learn how to analyze these characteristics of your optical system using an industry-standard design tool, OpticStudio by Zemax.
The content is good, and the instructor is very responsive through email. Though I think the capstone is not as challenging as the first course.,The lab demonstrations were very helpful and the explanations of complex phenomena were very easy to understand.
This module provides an introduction to the basics of Fourier Optics, which are used to determine the resolution of an imaging system. We will discuss a few Fourier Transforms that show up in standard optical systems in the first subsection and use these to determine the system resolution, and then discuss the differences between coherent and incoherent systems and impulse responses and transfer functions in the second subsection. We will wrap up with a discussion of these concepts using OpticStudio.
Fourier Transform of the Gaussian Beam - Optical Efficiency and Resolution
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