Optical System Engineering
Academic Study Board of the Faculty of Engineering
Teaching language: English
EKA: T470013102, T470013112
Censorship: Second examiner: None
Grading: Pass/Fail
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Spring
Level: Master
Course ID: T470013101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 31-08-2018
Duration: 1 semester
Version: Archive
Mandatory prerequisites
Content
This course will focus on practical engineering skills for developing optical systems with the primary objectives to learn about critical optics and system concepts and skills to specify, design, build, simulate, and evaluate optical components and systems. The course will include:
- Fundamentals of systems engineering
- Aberrations and image quality
- Optical components
- Radiometry
- Optical sources
- Optical detectors
- Optomechanical design
- Optical system design and verification
- Optical system performance characteristics and quantification of optical system performance
- Introduction to the use of optical design software (e.g. ray tracing software)
Learning objectives - Knowledge
The student will acquire knowledge on:
- physical principles involved in applied optical systems and optical hardware
- geometrical optics methods as well as graphical and ray-tracing methods to analyze optical systems
- some fundamentals of system engineering
Learning objectives - Skills
The student will be able to:
- design, set up, and operate basic optical systems and establish the imaging characteristics of multi-component systems
- identify fundamental limits and aberrations in an optical system
- apply ordinary design and simulation methods to optimize limiting factors and minimize the aberrations
- model optical systems using computer-aided methods (e.g. ray tracing simulations)
- perform design for manufacture, alignment, and testing
Learning objectives - Competences
The student will be able to:
- assess whether a given optical issue can be solved using ray optics, wave optics or an electromagnetic description
- develop a complete composite optical system design specification
- use an analysis and simulation tool for system evaluation and apply the tool to assess the suitability of an optical system for a specific task
- describe multiple key aspects of optical engineering in the process of successfully transitioning from concept to production
Teaching Method
Lectures as well as design and laboratory work. Students working in groups on engineering projects and case studies providing the opportunity to learn systems engineering skills first-hand.
Examination regulations
Exam regulations
Examination is held
Examination is held in the end of the semester
Tests
Exam
EKA
T470013102
Description
Documents and reports assessed by the teacher as pass/fail.
Form of examination
Portfolio
Censorship
Second examiner: None
Grading
Pass/Fail
Identification
Student Identification Card - Student Identification Number
Language
English
ECTS value
5
Prerequisites
| Type | Prerequisite name | Prerequisite course |
|---|---|---|
| Exam | T470013112, Examination conditions | T470013101, Optical System Engineering |
Examination conditions
EKA
T470013112
Description
Compulsory design tasks and laboratory exercises associated with the course should be carried out and documented in accordance with the requirements specified at the beginning of the course in order to gain access to the examination.
Form of examination
Combined test
Censorship
Second examiner: None
Grading
Pass/Fail
Identification
Student Identification Card - Student Identification Number
Language
English
ECTS value
0