First Order Optical System Design Certificate Course

Enroll in the First Order Optical System Design Program to learn about techniques of First Order Optical System Design.

University of Colorado Boulder

Course Overview

The course is altogether associated with the optical instruments and its creation. Optical instruments are used in order to see the world, be it corrective eyewear medical endoscopes and even orbiting telescopes.

In the course, the students will be able to design, first-order, such as optical systems with mathematical and graphical techniques. Hence, the course will help in developing the base needed to begin all the designs and the intuition needed to address the complications of the designs while brainstorming meetings. Learners will learn the ways of entering these designs into the industry standards design tool, OpticStudio by Zemax, and improve the performance with powerful automatic optimization methods.

  • First order optical designs

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of optics
  • A computer or laptop with internet connectivity.
  • Learn about techniques of first order optical system designs in approximately 21 hours.