Optical Information Processing

EEE 522 treats light propagation as a linear system, so the same Fourier and signal-processing machinery you'd use for circuits becomes the language for describing what lenses, free space, and graded-index media do to a wavefront. You'll work through homework sets and a midterm rooted in two-dimensional signals, time-frequency and phase-space representations, and the fractional Fourier transform (Ozaktas's own textbook), then close with a research-paper-style term project on a topic of your choice. It's a graduate elective that pays off twice: it deepens the signals-and-systems intuition from EEE 321/424 and opens the door to optical computing, holography, and imaging research at Bilkent's UNAM and optics groups.