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Video lectures are not available for sessions 10, 21 and 24. Sessions 10 and 21 were quizzes. Session 24 was student project presentations, videos of which can be found on the Projects page.

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Lecture 1: Course organization; introduction to optics

Lecture 2: Reflection and refraction; prisms, waveguides, and dispersion

Lecture 3: Focusing, imaging, and the paraxial approximation

Lecture 4: Sign conventions; thin lenses; real and virtual images

Lecture 5: Thick lenses; the composite lens; the eye

Lecture 6: Terms: apertures, stops, pupils, and windows; single-lens camera

Lecture 7: Basics of mirrors, magnifiers, and microscopes

Lecture 8: Telescopes; aberrations: chromatic, spherical, and coma

Lecture 9: More aberrations; optical design; GRadient INdex (GRIN)

Lecture 11: The Hamiltonian formulation; introduction to waves

Lecture 12: The wave equation; phasor representation; 3D waves

Lecture 13: 3D wave phenomena; introduction to electromagnetics

Lecture 14: Maxwell's equations; polarization; Poynting's vector

Lecture 15: Huygens principle; interferometers; Fresnel diffraction

Lecture 16: Gratings: amplitude and phase, sinusoidal and binary

Lecture 17: Fraunhofer diffraction; Fourier transforms and theorems

Lecture 18: Spatial filtering; lens transfer functions & transforms

Lecture 19: The 4F system; binary amplitude & pupil masks

Lecture 20: Shift invariance; pupil engineering; the Talbot effect

Lecture 22: Coherent and incoherent imaging

Lecture 23: Imaging with a single lens

Lecture 25: Resolution; defocused optical systems

Lecture 26: Depth of focus and field; polarization; wave plates

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