Module 1:  Review: Elementary Optics Electromagnetic waves, photons, diffraction and interference, the laws of reflection and refraction, mirrors and thin lenses

Module 2:  Ray Optics Ray tracing, paraxial optics, matrix methods, thick lenses and compound lenses, image formation, aberrations

Module 3:  Optical Instruments The eye, cameras, telescopes, microscopes, stops and apertures

Module 4:  Sources and Detectors Radiometry and photometry, thermal sources, line sources, LEDs, quantum detectors, thermal detectors

Module 5:  Interference and Diffraction Interference, far- and near-field diffraction, temporal and spatial coherence, interferometry

Module 6:  Image Processing Optical Processing, Fourier-transform optics, transfer functions, digital image processing

Module 7:  Lasers Light amplification, resonators, various laser systems

Module 8:  Polarization and Electromagnetic Effects Polarization, non-linear optics

Module 9:  Fiber Optics Optical wave guides, modes, fibers, couplers, fiber measurements

Module 10:  Integrated Optics Optical integrated circuits, optical devices