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Course Locations

Courses are held throughout the year in Optima Research's purpose-built Training Suite in Stansted Mountfitchet, near London-Stansted airport.

London-Stansted can be easily reached from all European countries. We have arranged hotel accommodation with local hotels at very advantageous rates. Please click here for details.

Courses can also be arranged on-site if required. This is often a good option is more than five people from the same organisation need to attend the same course, or if you want course material tailored to your specific needs. Please contact us for details.

About the Tutors

Neil Barrett is General Manager of Optima Research. He gives ZEMAX technical support and has taught ZEMAX courses to hundreds of customers throughout the UK and Europe. He has a friendly, interactive style, which together with excellent examples and attention to delegates’ questions ensures that everyone gets the best value from their training attendance.

Neil has a Masters in Optics and Photonics and DIC in Physics from Imperial College London and has previously worked at Philips Research Laboratories (Redhill) and Sharp Laboratories of Europe (Oxford).

Mike Johnson is Optical Engineer at Optima Research, and is responsible for ZEMAX sales, training and technical support throughout the UK and Europe.

Mike has a Masters in Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices from St. Andrews and Herriot Watt, and has previously worked for Thales Optronics.

Eddie Judd is a former Technical Director of Davin Optronics. Eddie started in optics in the early 60's while working at BSIRA (now SIRA Ltd) - initially as a laboratory assistant responsible for measurement of mtf of lenses and for the development of mtf calibration and verification procedures. He became interested in complex optical computations and was able to study optics and lens design under the tutelage of Professor Charles Wynne.

Leaving SIRA in 1971, Eddie then spent a couple of years at MEL Watson designing optics for military systems and then at Crosfield Electronics designing optics for pre-press systems. In 1975 Eddie had the opportunity to join the newly formed Davin Optics Ltd with the task of bring optical system design and manufacture to what was then an optical components manufacturing company. And he has been there ever since occasionally as Marketing Director but mostly as Technical Director.

In the 30 years Eddie has worked in lens design and optical engineering he has designed literally hundreds of lens systems for a great diversity of industries; night vision, missile optics, simulation systems, pre-press industry, machine vision, medical systems, laser beam delivery and so on. This considerable experience has given him insight into the problems of producing economic, manufacturable lenses.

Professor Robin Smith was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He gained his PhD in 1964 in the Applied Physics Group in the Physics Department at Imperial College, London. In 1968 he joined the staff as a lecturer based in the Applied Optics Group. He was Head of Applied Optics from 1987 until September 1992 when he took up the position of Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Physics Department. From September 1998 to September 2005 he was the Associate Head of Department. He has been a Professor of Physics since 1996.

He has taught optics, electronics, electricity and magnetism, mathematics, partial differential equations and Fourier analysis at undergraduate level.

Over the years he has taught much of the MSc course in Applied Optics including thin films, polarisation, optical waveguides and fibres, geometrical optics, optical testing and interferometry, holography, physical optics and diffraction, aberration theory and optical design.

His research interests cover most of applied optics, including lens design, diffractive optics, interferometry, image formation, holography and thin films. He has wide experience as a consultant on optical system design to industry in the UK and the USA.

Since October 2005 he has been concentrating on MSc teaching and research part time, having retired from his extensive administrative duties in the Department and the College.

Mr. Michael Pate has been developing and teaching optical courses worldwide to Fortune 500 companies for the last 9 years. His visually oriented teaching style is backed up with clear, non-complicated explanations of difficult technical subjects and concepts. These instruction techniques combined with his interactive style and some humor, enable clients to leap up the complex learning curve of digital projector optical systems.

Mr. Pate is the President of Optical Short Course International an education and technical consulting firm. He holds a Masters Degree in Optical Sciences from The Optical Science Center at The University of Arizona, and an Executive MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Michael has 21 years of optical engineering experience in new product development of optical instruments, R&D, optical system design, optical manufacturing, optical component and system testing, optical alignment, thin films, and radiometric design and analysis. Most recently he has been doing strategic and technical consulting work on digital projectors, developing courses, and teaching illumination design at University of Arizona. He has 25 patents granted and more in progress.

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