Fundamentals of Applied Optics Laboratory / OPTI502L
About Course
Course Description: Optical systems, Gaussian optics, aberrations, radiometry, sources, detectors, optical engineering.
Course Number: OPTI 502L
Course Type: Graduate Course
Units: 1
Semester Offered: Fall
Days and Times: Lecture session (Friday 2:00 - 2:50 pm); lab sessions (various dates and times, usually ~3 hours per session.)
Lecture Room: Meinel 422
Lab: Meinel 436
Distance Course: No
Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
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There will be no lecture on 11/29 and 12/6 (Wed). Instead, each lab group will meet and work on the final group presentation project. 12/4 or 12/5 lab sessions will be for your final project experiments. In this way, you do not need to work on the final project beyond your committed class hours.
The final group presentation (20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes Q&A) will happen in the classroom at 10:30 am - 12:30 pm on 12/8 (Fri). This is set by the University Final Exam schedule (https://registrar.arizona.edu/faculty-staff-resources/room-course-scheduling/schedule-classes/final-exams/final-exams-fall-2023).
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It is great to see you all in the OPTI502L class this fall semester 2023! It will be a wonderful class with lots of exciting optical engineering and science experiments and hands-on labs! Welcome to the class!
There will be a make-up session on 8/29 will be in Room 447 in Meinel Building.
Time: 4 - 4:50 pm on 8/29 (Tue)
Location: Meinel Building conference room 447
Zoom Recording: Yes, I will record the session and share the recording after the meeting. If you cannot make the make-up session, you are definitely fine to watch the recording.
I have received a few inquiries regarding the lab-sessions (not the lecture session). There are no lab-sessions on 8/28 and 8/29 because the lab-sessions will begin after the first lecture class. Please, join the make-up lecture session at 4 pm on 8/29 as announced.
Prof. Heejoo Choi will give a lecture covering various optical engineering projects on 8/30. They are the good real-world examples of the topics covered in this class.
There will be no lab sessions on 9/4 and 9/5 because 9/4 is the Labor Day holiday. Daewook will give the Lab-1 lecture on 9/6.
The first make-up session was completed. Thank you to all of you who joined the session in person or via Zoom. For those of you who couldn't join, as promised, here is the video recording. Have a wonderful day!
There will be no lab session next Mon and Tue (10/23 - 24). Also, we will cancel the lecture on Wed (10/25). Instead, please, join the Industrial Affiliate event as much as possible. It is a very important opportunity for you to meet our supporters from the excellent companies. Please, do not miss it. We are canceling the class for better good for you.
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 assistant research professor of Optical Sciences and will help 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.
Contacts
Daewook Kim: dkim@optics.arizona.edu
TA: Emil Varghese: emilv@arizona.edu