47th Annual Optics Summer School
June 16– June 27, 2008
(see our flyer here)

In 2008, The Institute of Optics will offer its 47th annual Summer School short-course series. This year’s offering will be a mix of a one-week course and two-and-a-half-day courses.

1. Fundamentals of Optics (with labs) covering lenses, aberrations, principles of diffraction, optical systems, polarization, birefringence and crystal optics, and radiometry and detection.
June 16-18, 2008

2. Modern Optical Engineering (with labs) covering optical testing and instrumentation, optical manufacturing, optical thin film coatings, diffractive optics, and glass in modern optics. June 18-20, 2008

3. Opto-Mechanics (with labs) covering opto-mechanical analysis methods used to design high performance optical systems. Finite element modeling techniques for analyzing light-weight mirrors, mounts, and lens systems will be discussed. Other topics include fitting surface distortions with Zernike polynomials and the analysis of line-of-sight jitter in vibration environments. The integration of thermal and structural responses into optical design software is presented.
June 18-20, 2008

4. High Resolution Microscopy: Optical and Scanning PROBE Methods covers material science and biological applications of traditional light microscopy and scanning probe-microscopy. Lectures will cover basics of light microscopy, illumination in microscopy, polarization, phase contrast and interference microscopy, biomedical microscopy and scanning probe and near field microscopy.
June 16-18, 2008

5. High Resolution Microscopy: Electron Beam Methods (with labs) covering topics in electron optics, sample preparations, imaging processes, and x-ray microanalysis for compositional determinations.
June 18-20, 2008

6. Lasers and Optoelectronics (with labs) covering basics of lasers, laser systems and modern laser engineering, nonlinear optics, and semiconductor lasers LED’s, and detectors.
June 23-25, 2008

7. Biomedical Optics covers diffusion models of photon propagation in multiply-scattering tissues applications of photon migration: tumor detection and brain monitoring spectroscopic methods for glucose sensing and other analyte detection tissue alteration: photodynamic therapy and LASIK high-resolution imaging: confocal microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, and optical coherence tomography.
June 25-27, 2008

8. Optical Thin Film Coating Technology covers all aspects of optical interference devices including thin-film design, digital design methods, and coating and characterization.
June 16-20, 2008