AP-OPT

Applied optics

Information

People who don’t have to design (specify, test, ...) optical systems but are working in projects together with optical designers and want to know more about optical principles, will benefit from this practice-oriented course.

Intended for

People with a non-optical background (e.g. electronics, mechanics, chemistry), who work in projects involving optics and want to increase their level of understanding of optical principles and applications. Technical college/university level.

Programme

Waves (6 hrs)

Vibrations. Waves. Wave packets. Plane waves. Spherical waves. Electromagnetic waves. Polarization. Materials. Refractive index. Absorption. Dispersion. Reflection and refraction at a boundary. Wave optics vs. geometrical optics.

Geometrical optics (15 hrs)

Snell’s law. Ray tracing. Mirrors, prisms, lenses. Lens systems. Principal planes. Focal points. Magnification, Lagrange’s invariant. Microscopes, telescopes. Aberrations (Seidel, chromatic). Correction of aberrations, lens design. Ambient factors (air pressure, CO2, H2O). Optical engineering. Optical practicum. Excursion.

Interferometry (3 hrs)

Superposition, interference, standing waves. Interferometers. Space and time coherence. Applications of interferometry.

Diffraction (3 hrs)

Principle of Huygens Fresnel. Diffraction patterns. Imaging in coherent light, Fourier optics. Incoherent imaging, modulation transfer. Depth of focus, phase masking. Diffraction theory of aberrations.

Polarization (3 hrs)

Anisotropic materials, birefringence. Wave plates, polarizers, beam splitters.

Optical measuring methods (3 hrs)

Optical shop testing methods. Shock-Hart­mann wave front sensing. interferometry applications.

Illumination (3 hrs)

Basic laws, units. Essential properties of light sources. Conventional sources (Hg, Xe). Lasers. Laser types (HeNe, CO2, ruby, YAG etc.). Safety issues. Gaussian beams, laser beam propagation. Practical illumina­tion systems, new developments.

Illumination applications (3 hrs)

Vision systems, appliances. Light sources.

Optics at ASML (5 hrs)

 

Methods: lectures, home assignments, excursion, hands-on. Course material: course notes, book. Award: certificate in case home work results are sufficient.

 

This course is part of the Certified Precision Engineer program of the Dutch Society for Precision Engineering (DSPE). Participants receive a certificate of The High Tech Institute and a sub-certificate of the DSPE in case home work results are sufficient.

Timetable

30-10-2012 09:00