This is supplemental course information, designed to give you a fuller picture of the course and an expanded look at the topics covered. This is an unofficial document. The USC Course Catalog is the binding description of all university courses. Information such as books, materials covered, and the order of topics is subject to change. Please consult instructor for this semseter to get more upto date course information.

Prerequisites and Background Courses

EE 401 Transform Theory for Engineers (or knowledge of Fourier transforms)
EE 470 Electromagnetics II (not required but useful)
EE 464 Probability and EE 562a Random Processes (not required but useful)
Related Courses
EE 469 Introduction to Digital Media (image models, media data storage and transmission)
EE 529 Optics
EE 530 Optical Materials, Instruments and Devices
EE 558 Optical Fiber Communications
EE 589 Statistical Optics
EE 559 Pattern Recognition (extreme computing requirements)
EE 569 Digital Image Processing (image models, media data storage and transmission)
EE 689 Optical Computing
A.A. Sawchuk
email: sawchuk@sipi.usc.edu
The required course textbook is J.W. Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996. Previous editions are obsolete. An up-to-date list of errata for this book is available at: http://ee.stanford.edu/~goodman/errata.pdf.
Many handouts and supplementary class notes will be also distributed.
Classroom and Laboratory Demonstrations
Optical wavefront propagation and image formation using Fourier analysis and linear system mathematics
Analysis and synthesis of optical or optoelectronic systems for 2-D parallel signal processing, interconnections and networks
Two-dimensional systems - Fourier transforms in 2-D
Diffraction
Kirchhoff
Rayleigh Sommerfeld
Angular spectrum of plane waves
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
Fourier transform properties--3 geometries
Imaging properties of Lenses
Frequency analysis of optical systems
Coherent
Incoherent
Ray and geometrical optics:
Optical processing and filtering -2-D Fourier transformations
Spatial filtering and holography - applications
Digital holography and diffractive optics
Hybrid systems - optical/digital
Spatial light modulators and smart pixel devices - acousto-optic, electro-optic, magneto-optic
Micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices
Optical computing
Applications: (will be included as time permits)
Optical interconnections and networks
Free-space and fiber optic communications
Image acquisition, processing, display; computer vision
Laser systems
Pattern recognition
Astronomy
Wave propagation in optical materials, devices, systems
Imaging with long wavelengths - acoustics, microwave, radar, ambiguity functions, signal codes, synthetic aperture - SAR
Optical computing
Optical data storage of image and multimedia information (CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, page-oriented storage, etc.)