ECE 30417 - Engineering Optics Laboratory
Note:
This course was previously offered as ECE 41300.
Course Details
Lab Hours: 3 Credits: 1
This is an experiential learning course.
Counts as:
- EE Elective - Adv Level Lab
- CMPE Complementary Elective
Normally Offered:
Each Spring
Campus/Online:
On-campus only
Requisites:
ECE 30100 and (ECE 20008 or ECE 20800) and (ECE 30411 or ECE 31100) and ECE 30416 [may be taken concurrently]
Catalog Description:
A set of laboratory experiments dealing with fundamentals and basic applications of geometrical optics, beams, polarization optics, wave optics and Fourier optics.
Required Text(s):
- Fundamentals of Photonics, , 2nd Edition , E. A. Saleh & Malvin Carl Teich , World Scientific , 2007 , ISBN No. 0471358320
Recommended Text(s):
- Optics , 4th Edition , E. Hecht , 2002 , ISBN No. 080-538-5665
Learning Outcomes:
A student who successfully fulfills the course requirements will have demonstrated:
- an ability to properly handle basic optical components and equipment. [6]
- an ability to assemble a set of optical components to perform simple optical measurements. [6]
- an ability to design and test simple free-space optical measurements and instruments. [2]
Lab Outline:
| Lab | Experiment |
|---|---|
| 1-2 | Geometric Optics |
| 3-4 | Interferometer and Interference Effects |
| 5 | Power and beam spot measurement of laser beams |
| 6 | Spatial filtering and beam expanding |
| 7 | Transform, convolution and correlation of beams |
| 8 | Polarization Effects |
| 9 | Diffraction |
| 10 | Optical Fourier Transforms and Spatial Filtering |
| 11-12 | Holographic Recording and Reconstruction; Project/Design Introduction |
| 13-14 | Design Project |
| 15 | Coherence Effects |