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Optical Engineering
Theory and practice of optical methods in engineering and system design. Emphasis on diffraction, statistical optics, holography, and imaging. Provides engineering methodology skills necessary to incorporate optical components in systems serving diverse areas such as precision engineering and metrology, bio-imaging, and computing (sensors, data storage, communication in multi-processor systems). Experimental demonstrations and a design project are included.
Spring 2002
Topics
- Introduction: Statistical Optics, Inverse Problems
- Fourier Optics Overview
- Random Variables: Basic Definitions, Moments
- Random Variables: Transformations, Gaussians
- Examples: Probability Theory and Statistics
- Random Processes: Definitions, Gaussian, Poisson
- Examples: Gaussian Processes
- Random Processes: Analytic Representation
- Examples: Complex Gaussian Processes
- 1st-Order Light Statistics
- Examples: Thermal and Laser Light
- 2nd-Order Light Statistics: Coherence
- Example: Integrated Intensity
- The van Cittert-Zernicke Theorem
- Example: Diffraction from an Aperture
- The Intensity Interferometer
- Examples: Stellar Interferometer, Radio Astronomy, Optical Coherence Tomography
- Effects of Partial Coherence on Imaging
- Information Theory: Entropy, Mutual Information
- Example: Gaussian Channels
- Convolutions, Sampling, Fourier Transforms
- Imaging Channels
- Inverse Problem Case Study: Tomography
- Filtered Backprojection
- Super-Resolution and Image Restoration
- Information-Theoretic Performance of Inversion Methods
Readings
- Goodman, Joseph W. Statistical Optics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2000. ISBN: 9780471399162.
- Bertero, Mario, and Patrizia Boccacci. Introduction to Inverse Problems in Imaging . London, NY: Taylor & Francis, 1998. ISBN: 9780750304351.
- G = Goodman, Joseph W. Statistical Optics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2000. ISBN: 9780471399162. B = Bertero, Mario, and Patrizia Boccacci. Introduction to Inverse Problems in Imaging. London, NY: Taylor & Francis, 1998. ISBN: 9780750304351.
- LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Random Variables: Basic Definitions, Moments · READINGS: G2.1-4
- LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Random Variables: Transformations, Gaussians · READINGS: G2.5-9
- LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: Examples: Probability Theory and Statistics · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Random Processes: Definitions, Gaussian, Poisson · READINGS: G3.1-7
- LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Examples: Gaussian Processes · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Random Processes: Analytic Representation · READINGS: G3.8-10
- LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Examples: Complex Gaussian Processes · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: 1st-Order Light Statistics · READINGS: G4.1-4
- LEC #: 11 · TOPICS: Examples: Thermal and Laser Light · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 12 · TOPICS: 2nd-Order Light Statistics: Coherence · READINGS: G5.1-3
- LEC #: 13 · TOPICS: Example: Integrated Intensity · READINGS: G6.1
- LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: The van Cittert-Zernicke Theorem · READINGS: G5.4-6
- LEC #: 15 · TOPICS: Example: Diffraction from an Aperture · READINGS: G5.7
- LEC #: 17 · TOPICS: Examples: Stellar Interferometer, Radio Astronomy, Optical Coherence Tomography · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 18 · TOPICS: Effects of Partial Coherence on Imaging · READINGS: Class
- LEC #: 19 · TOPICS: Information Theory: Entropy, Mutual Information · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 20 · TOPICS: Example: Gaussian Channels · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 24 · TOPICS: Filtered Backprojection · READINGS: B11.2-3
- LEC #: 25 · TOPICS: Super-Resolution and Image Restoration · READINGS: B10.1-5, 11.4-5
- LEC #: 26 · TOPICS: Information-Theoretic Performance of Inversion Methods · READINGS: Class
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 2.710 or permission of instructor G (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2002
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.