EE 482
   Fall 2007

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

Class meets MW 10:00 - 10:50 am, EPS 110
Lab meets Th 10:00-12 noon, EPS 110

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

Office hours (or by appointment):
M 3-4 pm
T 1-2 pm
W 3-4 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. 

Teaching Assistant
    Kerry Neal 
    512 Cobleigh, 994-7528 (office)
    E-mail: kerryaneal at gmail dot com

Announcements & handouts:

• Class syllabus (pdf 28 kB)
• Course outline (pdf 57 kB)
• Geometrical optics sign conventions (pdf 78 kB)
• Stops & pupil notes (pdf 69 kB)
• Fabry Perot notes (pdf 62 kB) - rev. 9/24/07
• "Who were Fabry and Perot?" (pdf 262 kB)
• Diffraction from circular apertures (pdf 36 kB)
• Beams and Resonators 1 (pdf 180 kB)
• Beams and Resonators 2 (pdf 187 kB)
• Exam 1 (2 hours, 1 sheet notes) Oct. 16, 2007
• Exam 2 (2 hours, 1 sheet of notes) Dec. 4, 2007
• Radiometry notes (pdf 625 kB)
• Final project description (pdf 27 kB)

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 5 pm Friday, 9/7/07 (pdf 9 kB)

• HW2 due 5 pm Wednesday, 9/12/07 (pdf 21 kB)

• HW3 due in class Monday, 9/24/07 (pdf 11 kB)

• HW4 due 5:00 pm 10/3/07 (pdf 101 kB)

• HW5 due 5:00 pm 10/10/07 (pdf 89 kB)

• HW6 due 5:00 pm 10/29/07 (pdf 49 kB)

• HW7 due 5:00 pm 11/7/07 (pdf 74 kB)

• HW8 due 5:00 pm 11/14/07 (pdf 82 kB)

• HW9 due 5:00 pm 11/20/07 (pdf 72 kB)
  - C190 LED spec sheet (pdf 869 kB)
  - DL3149-057 laser diode spec sheet (pdf 34 kB)

• HW10 due 5:00 pm 11/28/07 (pdf 33 kB)
  - S1226 photodiode spec sheet (pdf 311 kB)
  - Janesick's "Dueling detectors" article (pdf 195 kB)
  - Littwiller's "CCD vs. CMOS" article (pdf 421 kB)

Labs:    Lab Schedule - revised Oct. 3 (pdf 8 kB)

• Lab 1 Lenses and imaging - 9/4/07 & 9/11/07  (pdf 30 kB)

• Lab 2 Interference - 9/18/07 & 9/25/07 (pdf 41 kB)
  (corrected version posted 10/1/07)

• Lab 3 Diffraction - 10/2/07 & 10/9/07 (pdf 43 kB)
  Matlab image commands

• Lab 4 Gaussian Beams - 10/23/07 (pdf 35 kB)
            Suzaki & Tachibana paper (pdf 262 kB)

• Lab 5 Polarization - 10/30/07
            Meadowlark Optics polarizer information (pdf 1040 kB)
            Meadowlark Optics retarder information (pdf 685 kB)

• Lab 6 A-O modulators - 11/6/07

• Lab 7 Light Emitting Diodes - 11/13/07 
            Red LED data sheet (pdf 282 kB)
            Green LED data sheet (pdf 284 kB)

• Lab 8 Laser Diodes - 11/20/07
            Laser diode data sheet (pdf 107 kB)

• Lab 9 Detectors - 11/27/07
            Large-area detector data sheet (pdf 109 kB)

NOTE: Lab Report #1 is due by 5 pm, Fri., Oct. 19
            Lab Report #2 is due by 5 pm, Nov. 16
            Lab Report #3 is due by 5 pm, Dec. 5

NOTE: Lab books due Sep.25 & Dec 5.