This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
This course is part of the Optical Engineering Specialization

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be able to design, to first order, such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction to Geometrical Optics
Optical System Design in OpticStudio
First Order Ray Tracing
Thick Optics and Mirrors
Reviews
- 5 stars60.35%
- 4 stars24.21%
- 3 stars8.77%
- 2 stars3.15%
- 1 star3.50%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FIRST ORDER OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Well made course. clear lecture. removed one star because lecture note is not sufficient to cover all the concepts. Need more reading materials.
Good lectures and presentations in this course. A sound and systematic basis for the next courses to follow.
Great content but the provided learning resources are limited to the video lectures and exercises. There is no staff helping in the discussion forums. Question hang there without answers for months.
Good course, explanations are clear and concise and I got a good learning. Tricky exercises! Perhaps more exercises with quantstudio would have been nice.
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