Geometric Optical Design

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of geometric optics, matrix theory, aberration theory, and optical design. This course will also cover an overview of traditional lens designs such as landscape lenses, periscopic lenses, ocular lenses (eyepieces), telescopes, and spectrographs. Students will be introduced to the concepts of utilizing merit functions and solves within industry-standard optical design software to conceptualize, design, optimize, and analyze optical systems. The requirements of this course include a graduate project and/or research paper.