Wave Optics & Imaging

4.0 credits

This course provides the practicing optical engineer with the basic concepts of interference, diffraction, and imaging. Each topic will be reinforced with real-world examples. The interference section will include interferometry, Fabry-Perot etalons, and multilayer thin films. The diffraction and imaging sections will include, but are not limited to, diffractive optics, continuous and discrete Fourier transforms, convolution theory, and Linear Systems.References: Hecht, Optics (4th edition); Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics; Lecture notes.