EE 482
   Fall 2009

The online home of Electro-Optical Systems
at Montana State University - Bozeman.

Class meets MW 10:00 - 10:50 am, EPS 110
Lab meets T 10-12 in EPS 110

Instructor:   
     Dr. Joseph Shaw
     Professor, ECE
     518 Cobleigh Hall
     ph. (406) 994-7261
     email: jshaw at montana dot edu

Office hours (or by appointment):
     Mon 1:00 - 2:00 pm
     Tues 1:00 - 2:00 pm
     Wed 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Welcome to EE 482. Feel free to ask questions at any time. E-mail is an excellent way to contact me, but you are also welcome to stop by my office at 518 Cobleigh during times that are not reserved.  

Announcements & handouts:

• Class syllabus (pdf 32 kB)
• Course schedule (pdf 8 kB)
• Geometrical optics sign conventions - (pdf 82 kB)
• Fabry-Perot interferometer writeup (pdf 62 kB)
• "Who were Fabry & Perot?" (pdf 262 kB)
• Circular diffraction writeup (pdf 106 kB)
• EXAM 1 - T, 10/13/09 10:00 - 11:50 am, EPS110
• EXAM 2 - T, 11/10/09 10:00 - 11:50 am, EPS110
• Radiometry overview (pdf 490 kB)
• LED photometric - radiometric conversions
  (pdf 122 kB)
• Final report information (pdf 27 kB)
• Final Exam - Wed, 12/16/09 8:00 - 9:50 am, EPS110

Related Links:
Lens and Mirror imaging Java applet (NTNU JAVA,
Virtual Physics Laboratory, Fu-Kwun Hwang)
Optical Society of America
SPIE - Int'l Society of Optical Engineering
Thorlabs tutorial on Gaussian beams
Newport tutorial on Gaussian beams
Liteon - LEDs 
Lumileds - LEDs 
New white-light LED at Vanderbilt University
   more: J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper on white light emission 
LED information at Wikipedia
Superbrightleds.com



 

Assignments:

• HW1 due in class Wednesday, 9/9/09 (pdf 8.4 kB)

• HW2 due by 5:00 pm Monday, 9/14/09 (pdf 21 kB)

• HW3 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 9/23/09 (pdf 4.7 kB)

• HW4 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 9/30/09 (pdf 28 kB)

• HW5 due by 5:00 pm Friday, 10/9/09 (pdf 18 kB)

• HW6 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 10/21/09 (pdf 14 kB)

• HW7 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 10/28/09 (pdf 51 kB)

• HW8 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 11/3/09 (pdf 74 kB)

• HW9 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 11/18/09 (pdf 77 kB)

• HW10 due by 5:00 pm Wednesday, 12/2/09 (pdf 81 kB)
       C190 red LED data sheet (pdf 868 kB)
       DL-3149 red laser diode data sheet (pdf 33 kB)
       S1226 photodiode data sheet (pdf 310 kB)

Labs:   
Lab schedule - (pdf 8 kB)

• Lab 1 Lenses and imaging - 9/8/09 & 9/15/09 (pdf 27 kB)

• Lab 2 Interference - 9/22/09 & 9/29/09 (pdf 32 kB)

• Lab 3 Diffraction - 10/6/09 (pdf 40 kB)
  Matlab image commands (.txt file)

• Lab 4 Gaussian Beams - 10/20/09 (pdf 34 kB)
            Suzaki & Tachibana paper (pdf 262 kB)

• Lab 5 Polarization - 10/27/09
            Meadowlark Optics polarizer information (pdf 1040 kB)
            Meadowlark Optics retarder information (pdf 685 kB)

• Lab 6 AOM & Faraday Isolator - 11/3/09 (pdf 27 kB)

• Lab 7 Light Emitting Diodes - 11/17/09 (pdf 28 kB)
            Red LED data sheet (pdf 282 kB)
            Green LED data sheet (pdf 284 kB)

• Lab 8 Laser Diodes - 11/24/09 (pdf 18 kB)
            Laser diode data sheet (pdf 107 kB)

• Lab 9 Detectors & Noise - 12/1/09

Lab Reports due:
     #1 by 5 pm, Fri., Oct. 23
     #2 by 5 pm, Wed., Dec. 2

Lab books due: by 5 pm on Sep. 29 & Dec. 2