Lecture 25: Resolution; defocused optical systems

Light Propagation in Sub-wavelength Modulated Media

Design of a Cooke Triplet

Holographic Tomography

Accuracy Requirements in the Mechanical Assessment of Photonic Crystals

Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry

Lecture 26: Depth of focus and field; polarization; wave plates

Wigner Distribution Function and Integral Imaging

Lecture 23: Imaging with a single lens

Lecture 22: Coherent and incoherent imaging

Lecture 20: Shift invariance; pupil engineering; the Talbot effect

Lecture 19: The 4F system; binary amplitude & pupil masks

Lecture 17: Fraunhofer diffraction; Fourier transforms and theorems

Lecture 18: Spatial filtering; lens transfer functions & transforms

Lecture 16: Gratings: amplitude and phase, sinusoidal and binary

Lecture 15: Huygens principle; interferometers; Fresnel diffraction

Lecture 11: The Hamiltonian formulation; introduction to waves

Lecture 14: Maxwell's equations; polarization; Poynting's vector

Lecture 13: 3D wave phenomena; introduction to electromagnetics

Lecture 7: Basics of mirrors, magnifiers, and microscopes

After watching all the videos in the series I was unable to find my glasses prescription. I would expect so much more from MIT, only 2 stars for the inconvenience.  I looked all over the internet for my prescription and decided to search iTunes U for the great deal of professors available.  After watching the first video and being blinded by the overly bright projector, I decided I needed to strengthen my prescription. The Optics video was very misleading and I was in the end very disappointed. 2 stars for creativity.

Unable to find prescription.

Wouldn&#39;t you expect that a video course on optics from MIT would be able to show you the light the students are seeing?  In this course, the white board is so blindingly white that you can&#39;t read it. A serious handicap.  Only when the prof, who is not especially focused himself, writes on the blackboard can you SEE what he&#39;s talking about.

Blinded by the Light

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