Catalog Description: This course covers topics in Fourier transform properties of lenses, systems perspective of imaging and scalar diffraction theory, two-dimensional convolution and correlation functions, matched and spatial filtering, holography, and introduction to optical information processing.

Prerequisites: ECEN 3410, Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission, and ECEN 3300, Linear Systems

Textbook:

Optical Information Processing and Holography

Goals: To give seniors and first year graduate students in electrical engineering a systems perspective of the propagation and diffraction of light, matched and spatial filtering, and holography.

Topics:

Derivation of scalar diffraction theory.
The lens as a Fourier transform and imaging element.
Matched and spatial filtering.
Coherent and incoherent imaging systems.
Optical processing, convolution and correlations.
Holography.

Computer Usage:

2.0 Fourier transform illustration, convolution and correlation image processing techniques.

Laboratory Projects:

Class project.

ABET Category Content:

Engineering Science: 2.55 credits or 85%

Engineering Design: 0.45 credits or 15%