Welcome to the Optical Engineering Course notes.
The course will explore the use of lasers and coherent optics in Engineering. The emphasis of the course will be on the application of modern optical methods.
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For a general introduction to the field of optics, you may like to visit the HyperPhysics Light and Vision pages, where many terms are defined and explained in an extremely comprehensive manner.
You can find previous years exam questions and solutions at the bottom of the page here.
1 Seeing is Believing
 | Geometric distortion and the operation of a camera.
| Image construction and resolution.
| The Rayleigh resolution criteria. | |
2 Examples and Application of optical measurement
| Satellite reconnaissance cameras.
| Confocal microscopy.
| Analysis of a current photogrammatic problem | |
3 Wave Optics Holography & Interferometry.
| The wave theory of light
| Interference
| The Michelson interfereomer.
| How to make a hologram.
| Types of holographic storage and replay. | |
4 TV Holography
| Industrial TV holography measurements
| MIT Electronic projection holograms
| Stereo Viewers | |
5 Operation of a laser
| Continuous wave, solid state device and
diode laser operation.
| Temporal and spatial coherence | |
6 Industrial Laser Applications
| The operation of CD (compact disc ) reader
| SLA Stereo Lithography (Acrobat
presentation - 1.6Mb) | 
Laser cutting and welding | |
7 Fibre Optics
| How a fibre is made
| How a fibre works
| Types of fibre
| Laser/fibre interface | Useful Fibre Optics Notes from Bell College of Technology | |
8 Fourier Optics and Global Image Processing
9 Fourier Processing of Images (FRAN)
| FRAN User Instructions
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10 Optical Fluid Flow and Medical Diagnostics
| Optical diagnostic of
Gas-Turbine engine
| Optical diagnostic of IC
engine |
Surgical tools
| Endoscopes
| Medical Imaging
| Confocal Microscope
| Operating microscopes
| SIDOs (Smart Intelligent Diagnostic Optics) | |
11 Inventor's handbook
12 Digital HOE
| Technology background
| Applications | |
13 Tomography
14 Particle Image Velocimetry
15 Correlation
16 Examples of Flow Visualisation
17 Biomedical Optics
Example Questions
Each year's questions are in MS Word format and were zipped into a single
file for download. 
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| Undergraduate course notes can be found
here.
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