ECE 460 Optical Imaging

Fall 2021

Prof. Gabriel Popescu

Text: “Fundamentals of Photonics”, Saleh and Teich (2nd Edition, 2007)

Schedule: 11-12:20 T-R, Zoom

Teaching Assistant: Masa Sakakura (email)
Labs: Room 3016 ECEB

Office Hours (Instructor): Tuesday 12:30-1:30, Room 4055 Beckman Institute

Office Hours (TA): Thursday 12:30-2:00, Room 3016 ECEB

Date	Topic	Material	Homework	Lab
Aug 24^th	Fourier Transform	Fourier Transform
Aug 26^th	Fourier transform and Linear Systems	Linear Systems and Fourier Transform
Aug 31^st	Sources of Light	Light:Sources	HW1	Math Tool Box Noisy Data
Sep 2^nd	Radiometric and Photometric Properties of Light	Radiometric and Photometric Properties of Light
Sep 7^th	Properties of Light	Properties of Light
Sep 9^th	Geometrical Optics	Geometrical Optics	HW2
Sep 14^th	Geometrical Optics
Sep 16^th	Wave Optics	Wave/ Fourier Optics	HW3
Sep 21st	Wave Optics			Ray Optics
Sep 23^rd	Fourier Optics
Sep 28^th	Fourier Optics			Diffraction
Sep 30^th	Review
Oct 5^th	Midterm 1			Fourier Optics
Oct 7^th	Spatial and Temporal Field Correlations	Spatiotemporal Correlations
Oct 12^th	Spatial and Temporal Field Correlations
Oct 14^th	Low-coherence Interferometry	LCI	HW4	Interference & Temporal Coherence
Oct 19^th
Oct 21^st	Spring Break
Oct 26^th	Low-coherence Interferometry
Oct 28^st	Optical Coherence Tomography
Nov 2^nd	Microscopy	Microscopy		Microscopy
Nov 4^th	Microscopy
Nov 9^th	Aberrations	Pupils, windows, aberrations	HW5
Nov 11^th	Review
Nov 16^th	Midterm 2
Nov 18^th	Polarization	Polarization		Polarization
Nov 23^rd	Thanksgiving Break
Nov 25^th	Thanksgiving Break
Nov 30^th	Waveplates		HW6
Dec 2^nd	Acousto-optics / Electro-optics	Electro-optics/ Acousto-optics
Dec 7^th	Final Review			Electro-optics / Acousto-optics
Dec 14^th	Final Exam (TAKE-HOME)

Grading: Midterm 1 - 15%; Midterm 2 - 15%; Final - 20%; Homework - 25%; Lab - 20%; Class Participation - 5%; Late Submission Penalty - 20%