2009 Course Handbook
OPTO222: Instrumental Optics
Humans depend heavily on our visual sense, and optics enables us to see images! Optics also underpins the operation of many scientific and biomedical instruments and is increasingly important for modern consumer devices such as digital cameras. In this unit, the digital camera is used as an example to understand illumination, geometrical optics, lenses and image formation, and image detection and display. Finally, aspects of system design are discussed. The laboratory experiments illustrate the operation of some optical devices, and optical software modelling is also a focus of the unit.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 6 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Physics staff |
| Prerequisites: | (MATH135(P) or MATH132(P) or MATH136 or MATH133) and [(PHYS140(P) and PHYS143(P)) or PHYS149(P)] |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | OPTO230 |
| Unit Designations: |
Technology
Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Physics and Engineering |
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