Lecture 1: Course organization; introduction to optics

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

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Lecture 3: Focusing, imaging, and the paraxial approximation

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

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

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

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Lecture 7: Basics of mirrors, magnifiers, and microscopes

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

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

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Lecture 11: The Hamiltonian formulation; introduction to waves

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

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Lecture 13: 3D wave phenomena; introduction to electromagnetics

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

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Lecture 15: Huygens principle; interferometers; Fresnel diffraction

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

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Lecture 17: Fraunhofer diffraction; Fourier transforms and theorems

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Lecture 18: Spatial filtering; lens transfer functions & transforms

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

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

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Lecture 22: Coherent and incoherent imaging

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Lecture 23: Imaging with a single lens

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Lecture 25: Resolution; defocused optical systems

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

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