We continuously revise our course offerings to meet the ever changing needs of today’s optical system designers. Our latest course, Essential Skills for Optical Design, is a masterclass in achieving effective optical designs.

Some of the courses on offer in 2007:

• Optical Design Using ZEMAX is a five day course, perfect for first time users of ZEMAX who need an introduction to first and third order optical design, basic principles and techniques, and design of simple imaging optical systems. This course covers the basics of using ZEMAX, defining optical systems, optimization, ray aberration fans and other diagnostic tools, apodization, vignetting, thermal analysis, and an introduction to tolerancing. This year three sessions of this very popular course are offered.
  
  
• Advanced Optical Design Using ZEMAX is a five day course that covers the design and analysis of more complex imaging systems, including local and global optimization, merit functions, diffraction theory, diffractive optics, polarization, advanced tolerancing, advanced analysis techniques, gradient index, fiber coupling, boundary conditions, zoom lenses, birefringent media, the Physical Optics Propagation capability and other topics. This advanced course also includes a half-day session on designing for manufacture.
  
  
• Illumination and Stray Light Analysis Using ZEMAX is a five day course that covers non-imaging design and analysis with ZEMAX, including non-sequential ray tracing, scattering, ray splitting, user defined sources/objects/surfaces, solid geometry modeling, CAD import/export, gradient index media, diffractive optics, illumination system design and optimisation and other advanced non-sequential analysis and modeling capabilities of ZEMAX.
  
  

• Programming ZEMAX is a two day course that teaches you how to use the many programmable features in ZEMAX. It covers macros, user defined surfaces and Non-Sequential objects and much more.
  

• Essential Skills for Optical Design is a three day course that covers theory, principles and practice for effective optical design. Taught by Eddie Judd of Davin Optronics and Professor Robin Smith.
  
  
• Designing Manufacturable Optical Systems is a three day course that covers the concepts, disciplines and design methodologies needed to ensure that manufacturability is considered at every stage of the design process. Particular emphasis is placed on intelligent selection of tolerances, and expressing these effectively in the tolerancing functions of optical design programs. The course includes several workshops on how to make existing designs manufacturable.
  

We also offer the same short courses taught at your location. Generally, if you have more than 5 attendees planning on taking a course, having us teach at your company location may be more cost effective. We can also customize course materials to your precise requirements.

If your schedule does not allow waiting for the next scheduled class, or if you need specialized training or support on the use of ZEMAX for any application, consider our private training services. Private training is a cost-effective way of rapidly learning on short notice. Please contact us for details.