AIPLAB — Adaptive & Integrated Photonics Lab

Education - PHOT 451 Microscale Optical Systems Design

PHOT 451 Microscale Optical Systems Design

Course given during the spring semester of 2025-2026 over 14 weeks (2 hours theory + 2 hours practice), please see also the syllabus. The course materials will be added during the semester.

Lecture materials

Lecture Topics Slides Book
1 Introduction to the course (pdf)
2 Electromagnetic fields (pdf)
3 Geometrical Optics (pdf)
4 Imaging and aberrations (pdf)
5 Image quality (pdf)
6 Geometrical optics: TMM (pdf)
7 Gaussian beam propagation (pdf)
8 Light as information & scaling optical systems (pdf)
9 Fresnel & discrete lenses, waveguides & fibers (pdf)

Additional scripts

Year Topic Reports Script files
2025-2026 [to be uploaded]

Exam questions & solutions

These are questions and solutions of example exams and/or previous midterm and final exams (and retake opportunities)
Year Exam name Questions Solutions
2025-2026 Example quiz 1 (pdf)
2025-2026 Quiz 1 (pdf) (pdf)
2025-2026 Quiz 2 (pdf) (pdf)
2025-2026 Final A (pdf) (pdf)
2025-2026 Final B (pdf)