Learner Reviews & Feedback for Design of High-Performance Optical Systems by University of Colorado Boulder
About the Course
Optical instruments are how we see the world, from corrective eyewear to medical endoscopes to cell phone cameras to orbiting telescopes.
This course extends what you have learned about first-order, paraxial system design and optical resolution and efficiency with the introduction
to real lenses and their imperfections. We begin with a description of how different wavelengths propagate through systems, then move on to
aberrations that appear with high angle, non-paraxial systems and how to correct for those problems. The course wraps up ...
Top reviews
DM
Nov 14, 2022
Very useful extension to the material presented in the first course of the specialisation, including much material that was new to me that would be useful in designing real world optical systems.
LC
Aug 21, 2021
A very good overview with all the necessary information. Good starter into the principles and ends with practical tips for the field.
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By Wayne L
•May 30, 2020
Excellent course. Actually the content itself worth 5 stars, but I have to take one star because of poor discussion forum management and unfriendly environment of the trial version Zemax. The staff really should consider to remove these concurrent posts since it flood the update date of the forum very often, and it makes difficult to track the status of discussion posts. Trial version Zemax lacks of save function, and it is really annoying when you need to manually input all of your design parameters every time. After all, I still highly recommend this course or specialization; professor McLeod's presentation is crystal clear and prof. Sullivan's experimental demonstration is also very illustrative. It is very helpful for people without formal training to establish good fundamental knowledge in optics.
By Oberon D
•Nov 15, 2018
By the end of this course and the specialization as a whole I feel that I have built up the foundation I need to my new job. Enormous value and very well put together. Some of the subjects in this course were covered in a cursory manner so one doesn't fully understand what's going on but that is understandable given the breadth.
By Önder S
•Oct 4, 2020
Full insight is delivered in this course. Along with the prior specialization courses this course is so powerful complementary one. As an Optical Engineering enthusiastic I am satisfied by this course series
By Lim C C
•Aug 21, 2021
A very good overview with all the necessary information. Good starter into the principles and ends with practical tips for the field.
By Dan M
•Nov 14, 2022
Very useful extension to the material presented in the first course of the specialisation, including much material that was new to me that would be useful in designing real world optical systems.
By osama r
•Jul 21, 2020
Great course.Best online course on optics designing. Hope Coursera will launch more courses like this in future
By Ori C
•Jun 8, 2022
Practical and highly informative engineering course.
By Chandan M
•Aug 22, 2020
very good course
By Arda E
•Feb 16, 2022
Wonderful
By Jyotismita S
•Jun 7, 2021
very Good
By I.D
•Aug 15, 2023
The course would have been better. The proff has not done a good job at all. He seemed bored to explain and to him the course might have been easy and trivial but that doesn't mean it is easy for everyone else "unforunately not every human is a genius"