Course Objectives High-end optical lenses are leading edge technology for the medicine, semiconductor, mobile phone, surveillance, machine vision, and space industry. This course will teach students how to design optical systems, transform those designs into real optical components, and test them.  

Prerequisite

Textbook E. Hecht: Optics 5th Ed 2016 M. Born and E. Wolf: Principles of Optics 7th Ed 2002

Topical Outline 1 Introduction
2 Optics fundamentals: light waves, basic principles, interference and diffraction Lecture 1
3 Optics fundamentals: (continue) Lecture 2
4 Image formation: paraxial raytracing, principal points, thin lens and mirrors Lecture 3
5 Image formation: (continue) Lecture 4
6 Optical components: lenses, mirrors, prisms Lecture 5
7 Aberrations and image evaluation Lecture 6
8 Optical materials and coatings Lecture 7
9 Basic optical devices: magnifying glass, microscopes, telescopes Lecture 8
10 Optical systems: generals and particular Lecture 9
11 Design of optical components and systems Lecture 10
12 Design and evaluation with software: OpticStudio Lecture 11
13 NCU Marathon Day No Class
14 Optical metrology Lecture 12
15 Optical manufacturing 1: crafts to CNC machining Lecture 13
16 Optical manufacturing 2: Large Optics, extreme challenges Lecture 14
E1 Final Report/ Project (Oral)
E2 Final Report/ Project (Oral) Cont’