EOP 601 Optical Design - Winter 2007

Download: MATLAB prism study (zip file)

Assignments and Design Studies

Assignments will generally be managed through WebCT (see notice).

Assignments:   1 2 3 4

Design studies:   1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Course Information

• General information
• Schedule of classes
• Class pictures
• Handouts

C Examples

• general raytrace

Matlab examples

Raytraces

• Trigonometric raytrace
• Polynomial fitting
• Coddington raytrace
• General raytrace

Optimization

• Design Example 1
• Design Example 2
• Linear search along solution vector
• Landscape Lens (Design Example 3
• Achromatic Lens (Design Example 4)
• Gradient Search

Fourier Optics

• Point Spread Function (via FFT)

CODE V Resources

• Landscape lens design using CODE V
• Generating hardcopy of plots and listings
• MTF example
• A Gentle Introduction to Optical Design
• Optical Research Associates

CODE V Lens Design Manager (LDM)

• Overview of LDM
• Optical Data Definitions
• Optical System Description
• Coordinates
• Sign Conventions
• Reference Rays, Vignetting, and Apertures

CODE V Automatic Design

• Discussion of Input and Computations
• Description of Output
• Technical Notes
• Constraint codes

Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 27 Dec 2006