This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5600, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
This course is part of the Optical Engineering Specialization

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be able to design, to first order, such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction to Geometrical Optics
Optical System Design in OpticStudio
First Order Ray Tracing
Thick Optics and Mirrors
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- 5 stars60.63%
- 4 stars23.75%
- 3 stars8.86%
- 2 stars3.19%
- 1 star3.54%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FIRST ORDER OPTICAL SYSTEM DESIGN
Really valuable introduction to optical design, I learned a lot! It takes dedication though, but it's totally worth it.
One inconvenience is the windows software. But I mainly aimed to study the mathematics and it is quite helpful with all the explorations needed with the problem sets.
Great content and teacher.
The course evaluation needs some debugging and problems should be better explained.
Good course, explanations are clear and concise and I got a good learning. Tricky exercises! Perhaps more exercises with quantstudio would have been nice.
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