| Aug 28 |
Introduction Course outline, administration, general principles of the detection of radiation, photoconductors |
| Aug 30 |
Direct detection 1 More on photoconductors, basic intro to heterodyne |
| Sep 4 |
Direct detection 2 Single and multiplexed optical detectors; responsivity, dark current, background (and flat-fielding, dark/bias measurements) |
| Sep 6 |
Direct detection 3 Bolometers and calorimeters from the submillimeter to X-rays |
| Sep 11 |
Coherent detection 1 Heterodyne receiver overview; frequency shifting (mixing), sidebands, detectors |
| Sep 13* |
Coherent detection 2 Mixers, amplifiers, noise cascade, dB, signal to noise ratios, radiomteter equation |
| Sep 18 |
Statistics 1 Distributions: binomial, Poisson, Normal, chi-squared; Statistics: sample mean, sample standard deviation |
| Sep 20 |
Statistics 2 Hypothesis testing and confidence limits |
| Sep 25 |
Statistics 3 Noise: source-, background-, and quantum limited detection |
| Sep 27 |
Optics 1 Geometric optics, equations for thin lenses, magnification, effective focal length |
| Oct 2 |
Optics 2 Mirrors, Fermat's principle, aberrations, telescope configurations |
| Oct 4 |
Optics 3 Diffraction and introduction to Fourier optics |
| Oct 9 |
Fourier series and transforms 1 Introduction, definitions, basic principles and limits |
| Oct 11 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| Oct 16* |
Fourier series and transforms 2 Transform theorems and their applications |
| Oct 18* |
Fourier series and transforms 3 Sampling, aliasing, convolution |
| Oct 23 |
Fourier series and transforms 4 The FFT, spectra and filtering |
| Oct 25 |
Optics 4 Filled aperture telescopes: beams, point spread functions, tapered illumination |
| Oct 30 |
Optics 5 Aperture phase, adaptive and active optics |
| Nov 1 |
Interferometry 1 Introduction to interferometry |
| Nov 6* |
Interferometry 2 Phased and multiplying arrays: from Michelson to Ryle |
| Nov 8* |
Interferometery 3 Synthesis arrays and earth rotation |
| Nov 13 |
Interferometery 4 Imaging, deconvolution of incompletely sampled data |
| Nov 15 |
Spectral analysis 1 Overview; colors, filters, prisms, calorimeters |
| Nov 27 |
Spectral analysis 2 Gratings; grating spectrometers; resolution, free spectral range |
| Nov 29 |
Spectral analysis 3 Types of grating spectrometers; Fabry-Perot, multi-layer reflectors and anti-reflection coatings |
| Dec 4 |
Spectral analysis 4 Fabry-Perot, microwave filters, multi-layer reflectors, and anti-reflection coatings. Fourier transform spectrometers, correlators, synchronous detection |
Dec 6 |
Review Review of course topics |
| Dec 12 |
FINAL EXAM, 10:00-12:00 |