Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 542 Optical Information Processing

Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, the reciprocity theorem, Kirchoff’s integral. General aspects of mutual coherence. Basic properties of recording materials. Phase transformation of thin lenses. Fourier transform properties of lenses, coherent optical information processing systems and applications. Introduction to holography and its applications.

Credit Hours: 3 Lecture

Prerequisites: ECE 355

Course Coordinator: Mohammad R. Sayeh

Textbooks:

1. "Optical Computing", M. A. Karim and A. A. S. Awwal, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1992.

References:

1. "Optical Computing, A Survey for Computer Scientists", D. G. Feitelson, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988.

2. "Optical Information Processing, Optical Signal Processing", Fourier Optics, F. T. S. Yu, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1983.

3. "Introduction to Fourier Optics", J. W. Goodman, McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Goals:

1. This course introduces graduate students to the field of optical information processing.  Advantages and disadvantages of optical approaches are reviewed.

Projects:

1. Simulation of Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction approaches for simple shapes.

2. Simulation of an optical spatial filtering.

3. Design of computer-generated holograms.

Computer Tools: MATLAB, Simulink

Last Review: Spring Semester 2004