Optical System Design Fall 2006

The University of Texas at Arlington - Capstone Course EE 4344

Lecture Time: Tuesday, Thursday 11AM-12:20AM Location: 255NH

HW Mentoring: Thursday 2:30PM Location: 255NH

Labs Time: Monday and Tuesday, 2:PM - midnight (other time also allowed under supervision of TA1 or TA2) Location: 255NH

HOMEWORK SOLUTIONS ON THE WEB

Presentation grading criteria:

1) problem description, 2) positioning of the problem in industry, 3) list several types of solutions of the problem that you find in literature, 4) your approach that you worked on, 5) practical realization , 6) theory of your approach, 7) results, 8) future work.

2) Final exam photos: project 1, project 2 (result), project 3

Research Day Photos: Undergrad Team, Grad Support, Project1 Team, Project2 Team, All together,

The Shorthorn photos!!!

Electrical engineering graduate Sheldon Fernandes and mechanical engineering graduate Abbey Fasoro attended Research Day ’06 on Tuesday in the University Center Rio Grande Ballroom. Fernandes explains his poster, which is based on the mode structure of laser diode.

Syllabus, Target Schedule

Optical System Design course based on the principles and techniques of optical engineering, including, imaging, lenses, wave optics, polarization, interference, diffraction, optical Fourier transforms, holography, frequency conversion, interaction of light and matter. Fall 2006 EE4344 Optical System Design is a redesigned course according to Capstone Class requirements with a strong accent on project realization. You will have a chance to put your hands on the realization of optical set-ups required by today's optical and opto-electronic industries. Understanding of Electro-Magnetics principles, wave propagation behavior and an experience of practical project realization are the important and recommended prerequisites. Best students will have opportunity to work in the Laser Diode Laboratory. Prerequisites: Electromagnetic I and senior standing, or by permission of the instructor.

Instructor: Dr. Nikolai Stelmakh

Office : Room 509 NH

Office hours : by appointment any time

E-mail : nikolais@uta.edu

Web : http://www-ee.uta.edu/eedept/faculty/stelmakh.htm

Lab TA1: Sheldon Fernandes

Office: 255

Office hours: by appointment any time

e-mail: sheldon.fernandes@uta.edu

Lab TA2: Geeta Tewani

Office: 255

Office hours: by appointment any time

e-mail: geeta.tewani@uta.edu

Required Text: none, we will work with several library sources, journal articles. Recomended books: Born, Wolf "Optics", E.Hecht, "Optics", F. Pedrotti "Introduction to Optics",Teich, Saleh "Fundamentas of photonics"

Class Materials: majority of materials for project realizations will be supplied; however, some personal financial participation of students may be needed. (<$100)

Safety manuals: Safe behavior in laboratory space

Groups: please think about your project partner right now. It will be very important in successful project realization. We have competition show in December (TBD)

Lab Work Report Template: LabWorkReportTemplate.ppt

Training Lab Descriptions (For information and educational purposes), you have to understand these topics):

Lens Combination (Thin Lens Equation) Full Description (beta-version)

Interference Full Description (beta-version)

Polarization of Light Full Description (beta-version)

Reflection/Refraction (Fresnel Equation) Full Description (beta-version)

Diffraction Grating, Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffractions Full Description

Spatial Filtering Full Description

Ellipsometer Full Description

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