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University of Colorado Boulder

Optical Engineering

University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera Specialization

Overview

The courses in this specialization can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600-5602, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Enroll here. Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes. This course will teach you how to design such optical systems with simple graphical techniques, then transform those pencil and paper designs to include real optical components including lenses, diffraction gratings and prisms. 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.

Syllabus

Course 1: First Order Optical System Design
- Offered by University of Colorado Boulder. This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Master of ... Enroll for free.

Course 2: Optical Efficiency and Resolution
- Offered by University of Colorado Boulder. This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5601, part of CU Boulder’s Master of ... Enroll for free.

Course 3: Design of High-Performance Optical Systems
- Offered by University of Colorado Boulder. This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5602, part of CU Boulder’s Master of ... Enroll for free.

Courses

Taught by

Amy Sullivan and Robert McLeod

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