This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. When you finish this course, you will be able to design, to first order, such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques. This first order design will allow you to develop the foundation needed to begin all optical design as well as the intuition needed to quickly address the feasibility of complicated designs during brainstorming meetings. You will learn how to enter these designs into an industry-standard design tool, OpticStudio by Zemax, to analyze and improve performance with powerful automatic optimization methods.
RR
Good course, explanations are clear and concise and I got a good learning. Tricky exercises! Perhaps more exercises with quantstudio would have been nice.
JJ
Excellent content and instructor, but, resources for this online course are a bit limited. Getting the OpticStudio software was a challenge.
OO
Really valuable introduction to optical design, I learned a lot! It takes dedication though, but it's totally worth it.
AY
The first week was a lot of derivation which was rough to get through, but the course became much more applicable in the following weeks and I learned a lot of useful concepts.
MS
Sometimes the lectures didn't contain enough info to do the homework. But the lectures and the homework were both h
HF
Great content and teacher.The course evaluation needs some debugging and problems should be better explained.
LS
A few new insights even for a senior optical engineer. I will keep working through their lectures if each one offers at least a few nuggets of insight.
JA
I enjoyed very much this course! It gives a detailed (yet understandable for a broader audience) introduction to several methodologies to understand optical systems, mostly lenses, and their design.
AO
Muy completo, en especial si ya tienes nociones de la óptica geométrica es un gran curso para comprender mas a fondo el tema del diseño óptico
MJ
The course is well structured. it would have been much better if there was more zemax design model in the weekly quiz.
DV
Good lectures and presentations in this course. A sound and systematic basis for the next courses to follow.
SM
Assignments are difficult and the auto-grader is a bit buggy. But the course content and the faculty is great