Optics and Photonics Training
Optics and photonics training and tutoring for working engineers, researchers and students: moving into photonics from another engineering field, getting one topic right before a project depends on it, or preparing for a design review or a qualifying exam. Sessions are one-on-one or in small groups. Training is online and uses the simulation tools published on this site, so a result can be changed and watched rather than only derived. Say where you are starting from in the form below.
Levels and topics
Professional engineer training
- Moving into photonics from electrical or mechanical engineering
- Fiber optics and integrated photonics for engineers
- Laser fundamentals and optical coating fundamentals
- Tolerancing, fabrication limits, and talking to vendors
- Design reviews run as teaching sessions, and team workshops on one instrument
Graduate and research topics
- Waveguide modes and integrated photonics
- Thin-film and multilayer interference
- Resonators, quality factor, and finesse
- Fiber optics, dispersion, and optical link budgets
- Qualifying exam preparation, and help checking a simulation for a thesis
Undergraduate optics and photonics
- Fresnel equations, polarization, and Jones calculus
- Gaussian beams and ABCD matrices
- Fourier optics and diffraction
- Electromagnetics, lasers, interferometers, and detectors
- Lens design fundamentals and aberrations
High school and AP physics
- Geometrical optics: reflection, refraction, and image formation
- Lenses, mirrors, and ray diagrams
- Waves, interference, diffraction, and thin films
- AP Physics 1 and 2 optics, IB Physics optics, exam preparation
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