OPTI 201R: Geometrical and Instrumental Optics

 

• Syllabus (PDF)
• Homework
• Homework Solutions
• Midterms
• Finals
• Demos
• Videos

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Recommended Texts

• John Greivenkamp’s FIELD GUIDE TO GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
• Warren Smith’s MODERN OPTICAL ENGINEERING (On Reserve in the Reading Room) eBook
• Eugene Hecht’s OPTICS (On Reserve in the Reading Room)
• MIL-HDBK-141

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Formal Notes (Required)

• Available at the bookstore
• YNU Raytrace Worksheet (PDF)

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Course Outline

1. Introduction History of Optics Slides
2. Prisms and Mirror Systems
3. Imaging with a Thin Lens
4. Imaging and Paraxial Optics
5. Gaussian Imagery
6. Object-Image Relationships
7. Gaussian Reduction
8. Objectives
9. Paraxial Raytracing
10. Stops and Pupils

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Homework

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Homework Solutions

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Midterms

• Thin Lens Practice Problems
• Thin Lens Practice Solutions
• 2016 Midterm 1
• 2016 Midterm 1 Solutions
• 2017 Midterm 1
• 2017 Midterm 1 Solutions
• 2018 Midterm 1 Solutions
• 2016 Midterm 2
• 2016 Midterm 2 Solutions
• 2017 Midterm 2
• 2017 Midterm 2 Solutions
• 2018 Midterm 2 Solutions

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Finals

• 2016 Final
• 2016 Final with Solutions
• Equation Sheet

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Demos

Snell’s Law demo

Thin Lens Imaging demo

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Videos

• How a signal mirror works
• FLIR
• Rochester cloaking device

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