COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
Fall 2007
Optoelectronic System Design
ECEN 4616/5616-001
3 Credit Hours, 1:00 - 1:50, MWF
Asst. Professor: Robert McLeod
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Description:
The primary goal of this course is to provide the tools and experience needed to design optical and opto-electronic systems. At the end of the course, students will be able to take system requirements, select possible components and approaches, create candidate designs and analyze and optimize their performance. We will learn and utilize standard optical design tools, particularly ray-tracing, as well as learning how to create custom system models with wave, polarization, or Gaussian-beam optical modeling. Throughout the course, the material will be illustrated with "real-world optical system design problems. Each student will complete one detailed system design and present the results to the class.
The primary analysis tool will be geometrical (ray) optics, which will be derived in class from Maxwell's equations. This reduces the modelling of EM waves to geometry and thus this class is accessible to anyone with a good background in EM.
Outline/material covered:
1. Mathematical analysis tools (wave propagation, ray tracing, Gaussian beams, Jones matrices)
2. Image forming systems (lenses and mirrors, hand-ray tracing for layout, computer ray tracing for analysis / optimization, primary aberrations, special types of lenses, classical imaging systems)
3. Polarization (Stokes vectors, Poincare sphere, polarizing materials, polarization components, Jones vectors, polarization systems)
4. Sources (Radiometry, Lagrange invariant, types of sources)
5. Detectors (semi-conductor detectors, noise in detection, coherent detection, imaging detectors)
6. Passive components (mirrors, filters, prisms, interferometers)
Office hours:
TBD
Computer use:
Homework projects will require simple numerical computation and plotting
Use of the Zemax optical design program (provided)
Lab:
None
Text:
Geometrical Optics and Optical Design, P. Mouroulis and J. Macdonald, ISBN 0-19-508931-6
Reference:
Fundamentals of Photonics, Saleh & Teich, ISBN 0471839655
Prerequisites
ECEN 3400, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves or equivalent
