Lab Equipment for Teaching Physics

Note: stainless steel optical table or breadboard not provided

Features

• Lens Aberration Demonstration

• Fourier Optical Processing

• Easy Operation

• Cost Effective

  
  

Introduction

There are six basic optical aberrations affecting the ideal performance in an optical imaging system, which are chromatic aberration, spherical aberration, coma, distortion, curvature of field and astigmatism. Experiments based on this kit will help students familiarize with these aberrations. Optical lens can perform the Fourier transform to light field on object plane. Various spatial filtering techniques are used in the reconstruction of the filtered images based on Abbe’s theory of image formation. Students can get a better understanding of Fourier optics and spatial filtering through the proposed experiments. The instructional manual contains comprehensive materials including experimental setups, principles, procedures and required parts with photos.  Please click to view some sample pages of the instruction manual.

Examples of experiments:

Lens Aberrations: spherical aberration, field curvature, astigmatism, coma, distortion, and chromatic aberration

Fourier Optics and Spatial Filtering: low-pass filtering, high-pass filtering, and directional filtering.

Part List