EOP 601 Optical Design - Schedule - Summer 2012

1 TueMay 15Review of Geometrical Optics
2 ThuMay 17Introduction to ZEMAX
3 TueMay 22continue review and intro to ZEMAX
4 ThuMay 24General raytrace, landscape and doublet design in ZEMAX
5 TueMay 29General raytrace
6 ThuMay 31OPD, Differential raytrace
7 TueJune 5Fitting polynomials to OPD fans
8 ThuJune 7Spherical aberration and orthogonal polynomials
9 TueJune 12Coddington Equations and off-axis aberrations
10 ThuJune 14Triplet Lens
11 TueJune 16Energy distribution, point spread function
12 ThuJune 19Design work
13 TueJune 21Telephoto/Wide-angle lens
14 ThuJune 26Resolution limits, bar targets, MTF
15 TueJune 28spurious resolution, geometrical OTF
16 ThuJuly 3Double-Gauss lens
17 TueJuly 5Two-mirror telescopes
18 ThuJuly 10Eye-pieces
19 TueJuly 12Anamorphic systems
20 ThuJuly 17Tilted/Decentered Systems
21 TueJuly 19Prisms
22 ThuJuly 24
23 TueJuly 31
24 ThuJAug 2


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