ECE 460 - Optical Imaging

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Web Page http://light.ece.uiuc.edu/ECE460/ECE460_Fall08.htm
Subject Area Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 329
Credit or concurrent registration in STAT 400 or ECE 313
Course Directors Stephen G Bishop
Description Introduction to visible and infrared imaging systems covering fields, optical elements, electronic sensors, and embedded processing systems. Lectures and labs cover active and passive illumination, ranging, holography, polarization, coherence, spectroscopy and sampling.

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Credit 3 hours
Goals To introduce students to the design principles, hardware and laboratory practice of computational optical imaging systems.
Topics
  • Geometric optics and field propagation
  • Fourier analysis of field propagation
  • Fourier analysis of physical imaging
  • Field properties: Intensity and polarization
  • Field properties: Spectra and coherence
  • Detectors, focal planes, sampling and information
  • Aliasing, holography, interferometery
  • Multiplex imaging, active imaging systems
  • Detection and imaging applications
Lab Projects
  • Geometric optics
  • Fourier optics (spatial filtering)
  • Fourier optics (field transformations)
  • Polarization, coherence, and spectra
  • Optical detectors, digital transformations
  • Aliasing and holography
  • Interferometric imaging, 3D imaging
  • IR sensors and spectrosopy
Course Prerequisites ECE 329; credit or concurrent registration in ECE 313 or STAT 400.
Texts Saleh and Tiech, Fundamentals to Photonics, 1st ed., Wiley.