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Optical Engineering Specialization

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Course Features

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Duration

4 months

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Advanced

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

These courses can be taken for academic credit under ECEA 5600-55602. This is part of CU Boulder's Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Register here. You can enroll here. This course will show you how to create such optical systems using simple graphical techniques. Then, transform your pencil and paper designs into real optical components, including lenses, diffraction gratings, and prisms. These designs can be entered into the industry-standard OpticStudio from Zemax to improve performance and analyze them with powerful automated optimization methods.

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

What You Will Learn

Specify an optical system and potential solutions to meet those specs

Transform layouts into optical designs including real optical components

Analyze you designs in an industry standard optical design code, OpticStudio by Zemax, to validate and optimize the design

be able to design, to first order, such optical systems with simple mathematical and graphical techniques

Course Instructors

Amy Sullivan

Research Associate

Amy Sullivan received her BA in Physics from Bates College, and her MS and PhD in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has worked in the photonics industry in the areas of liquid c...

Robert McLeod

Professor

Dr. McLeod received his BSEE in 1984 and MSEE in 1985 from Montana State University in Bozeman and the Ph.D. in EE in 1995 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in optical switchin...
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