Syllabus

Imaging and detector basics – resolution, sensitivity, noise, dynamic range, efficiency, linearity – image formation at focal plane – Fourier transform – Deconvolution and Image reconstruction – Photography CCD -- Large optical/IR telescopes and their designs – thin lens – segmented mirrors – Active optics – Designs of few upcoming large telescopes (eg. EVLT, TMT) – Techniques to overcome atmopsheric turbulence – Fried parameter – Isophase patches and speckles – Adaptive optics – Lucky imaging – Speckle imaging – Interferometry – Basic principles – Michelson stellar interferometer – Aperture synthesis – VLBI – New and Upcoming missions – eVLA, ALMA, SKA – Non focussing methods – Tubular and modulation collimators, Coded masks, Fresnel zone-plates – Astrotomographic techniques – Lunar occultation, eclipse mapping, doppler tomography, echo mapping.