Fundamentals of Applied Optics Laboratory / OPTI502L

Grading Policy

    The grade for this course is based on your lab notebook (75%), which requires lab and lecture session attendance, and a final group presentation (25%). The notebooks will be graded on the basis of completeness of the lab write-up and answering the questions. Lab notebooks will be collected during the semester and graded. Also, we will always be happy to look at your notebooks throughout the term.

About Instructor

• Daewook Kim is an associate professor of Optical Sciences and Astronomy at the University of Arizona. He has been working in the optical engineering field for more than 10 years, mainly focusing on very large astronomical optics such as the 25 m in diameter Giant Magellan Telescope primary mirrors. His main research area covers the precision freeform optics fabrication and various metrology topics such as interferometric test systems using computer generated holograms, direct curvature measurements, and dynamic deflectometry systems. He is currently a chair/co-chair of the Optical Manufacturing and Testing conference (SPIE) and the Optical Fabrication and Testing conference (OSA). He is a Senior member of OSA and SPIE and has been serving as an associate editor for the journal Optics Express.

• Heejoo Choi is an associate research professor of Optical Sciences and will co-teach Daewook and TA for the lab setups. He is an expert in optical design, metrology and engineering area and worked on various large ground and space telescope and imaging systems. 

• Peng Su, Ping Zhou and James Burge are also helping for planning and teaching the 502L class. 

Class Simulator Links

• Telescope aberration simulator: https://webs.optics.arizona.edu/gsmith/Hubble.html (by Prof. Greg Smith)

• Prof. Smith's phase shifting interferometer simulator

Contacts

• Daewook Kim: dkim@optics.arizona.edu

• Heejoo Choi: heejoochoi@arizona.edu

• TA: TBD