EOP513 Fourier Optics - Syllabus
Catalog Description
Mathematical techniques pertaining to linear systems theory; Fresnel and Fraunhoffer
diffraction; Fourier transform properties of lenses; frequency analysis of optical systems,
spatial filtering, application such as optical information processing
and holography.
January 2003 Graduate School Bulletin
Textbook
Joseph Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, 3rd Ed.,
Roberts and Company, 2005.
(ISBN 0-9747077-2-4)
Topics
- standard 1D and 2D functions and Matlab representation
- Dirac delta function
- convolution, 1D and 2D
- Fourier transforms
- Scalar diffraction theory
- Near-field and Far-field wave propagation
- Propagation of spherical waves
- Propagation in inhomogeneous media
- Effect of lenses in an optical system
- Gaussian beam propagation
- Interference patterns from multiple apertures
- Gratings
- Correlation
- Coherent optical processing
- point spread functions, optical transfer functions
- Holography
Maintained by John
Loomis, last updated 12 May 2003