Description
The course is advanced undergraduate / graduate course on the physical foundations of optical imaging, with a focus on modern optical microscopy. There have been significant breakthroughs in the field of optical imaging in the last two decades, with the development of several superresolution and computational microscopy techniques.
Books
1. J. Mertz, Optical Microscopy 2nd Edition (Cambridge Univ. Press)
2. E. Hecht, Optics, 4th Edition (Pearson) (or any other undergraduate text on Optics)
3. J. W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics
4. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics, 7th Edition.
Evaluation
Homework Assignments: 10 ×5 =50 points
Mid-Semester Examination: 25 points
Final term-paper / presentation: 25 points
Total: 100 points
Policy: Collaboration is allowed in the homework, but the results should be written by each student on his/her own and should not be a copy of another student’s work. Collaboration is allowed in preparation of the final term-paper/presentation, but work should be presented individually