EECE4646 --- Optics For Engineers --- Spring 2014

Prof. DiMarzio
Tue, Fri, 9:50-11:30AM in 010 WVF
Syllabus
Midterm Exam Midterm Exam Solutions


I hope that many people will find this material useful. I am making it available here in a very open form for the convenience of my students. In the spirit of academic openness, anyone is welcome to print a copy for personal use. However, please do not present it in any public venue or alter it in any way without my permission.
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439807255
New textbook: Optics for Engineers


The text for this course is my book Optics for Engineers. Click on the book or the link above for more information from my publisher, CRC Press.

Handouts of my notes, based on the book, are posted here (as pdf files). These are from last year, and there will be some edits based on my experience teaching the course then, and on comments by students. If you find an error or something that could be made more clear, in the notes or in the book, please let me know and I will correct it for the future.
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439807255
 Lecture Notes 1 - Introduction
Lecture Notes 2 - Reflection, Refraction, Thin Lens
Lecture Notes 3 - Matrix Optics
Lecture Notes 4 - Apertures
Lecture Notes 5 - Aberrations
Lecture Notes 6 - Polarization
Lecture Notes 7 - Interference
Lecture Notes 8 - Diffraction
Lecture Notes 9 - Gaussian Beams
Lecture Notes 10 - Coherence
Lecture Notes 11 - Fourier Optics
Lecture Notes 12 - Radiometry and Photometry
Lecture Old Notes 13 (COMING) - Detectors
Lecture Old Notes 14 (COMING) - Non-Linear Optics

Matlab help: Note that there is a Matlab TA available to help with any Matlab problems. Check
https://gazette.coe.neu.edu/?q=content/mathworks-ta-office-hours-spring-2014 for hours.

Announcements (Updated 17 April 2014)

(17 Apr 2014) The Final Exam is posted. It is due by 6:00pm on Thursday, the 24th. Project reports are due at the same time. Please submit one .pdf file for the exam and one for your project. Please include some recognizable part of your name in the filename. If you want to submit code for the project, you may submit it in a .zip file in addition to the .pdf of the report itself. Email if you need clarification on the exam questions.

(24 Feb 2014) The Midterm Exam is posted. It is due by 6:00pm on Friday, the 28th.

(1 Feb 2014) As promised, the videos are posted on the Blackboard site for the course. Go to the course, select "Tegrity Classes" on the left panel, and look through the videos for the ones you want. In case you find it useful, I've included all the lectures. Please note that these were for graduate students, so the lectures are a bit different than what I am doing for EECE4646, although the basics are the same. Remember, there is no class Tuesday, 4 Feb. Look at the streaming video for Chapter 4. Joseph will continue some of my notes on Chapter 4 on Friday the 7th, and I'll be back for Tuseday the 11th.

(16 Jan 2014) Homework may be submitted as a word-processed electronic file attached to an email. If you do this, please submit everything in one pdf file. Please use the pdf format rather than anything else.

(7 Jan 2014) The revised lecture notes for Chapters 1 and 2 are posted above. I have also put the word "OLD" in the link to the later notes that I have not revised yet.

(26 Dec 2013) I just posted the course syllabus. I'm in the process of correcting the notes which will be posted here as they are updated. I recommend you bring the notes with you to class. Many students find it useful to take notes, at least in part, on the handouts.

(11 May 2013) This course will cover some of the material from the graduate version, EECE7105 but only using a portion of the material, and with reduced expectations appropriate to an advanced undergraduate ECE or MIE elective. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.


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