Optics and Optical Design - Blackbody Radiation for Optical Engineers, EECS X496

I go over some of what is likely to come up concerning BBR when working with optical systems. Blackbody radiation is especially important not only for infrared imaging systems, but for any system that is affected by impinging infrared. A large part of this video was taken from a lecture on blackbody radiation in my optical systems course at UC Irvine, which by the way, you can take. If you are interested in optical engineering, the five-course program that I teach in is a very affordable, rigorous academic program that leads to a certificate in optical engineering from the University of California Irvine, Division of Continuing Education. https://ce.uci.edu/programs/engineering/optical-engineering In lieu of paying tuition for these optics lessons, a simple like will do. This channel is not monetized. References: Books James M. Palmer and Barbara G. Grant, The Art of Radiometry (SPIE Press, 2010). Keith J. Kasunic, Optical Systems Engineering (McGraw-Hill Education, 2011). Ross McCluney, Introduction to Radiometry and Photometry (Artech House, 1994). Eric. C. Fest, Stray Light Analysis and Control (SPIE Press, 2013). Papers Honnerová, Petra, et al. "Method for emissivity measurement of semitransparent coatings at ambient temperature." Scientific reports 7.1 (2017): 1386. Picon, Artzai, et al. "A probabilistic model and capturing device for remote simultaneous estimation of spectral emissivity and temperature of hot emissive materials." IEEE Access, 9 (2021): 100513-100529.