Short Course in Optical Engineering Objective and Scope Optical engineering is now common place in a variety of industrial systems and processes. The advent of the laser and laser diodes and more recently LEDs with sensors and detectors with added computational functionality have resulted in numerous systems ranging from consumer systems including the Kinect and Leap Motion to Precise Optical Metrological tools to Lased Aided Manufacturing and Processing. This course aims to introduce important basic concepts in Optical Engineering which would enable better understanding of the underlying principles of various optical systems for them to be suitably used, improved and modified for diverse applications. The course is divided into three modules based on the historical evolution of Optics and Photonics with relevant examples in each domain. Lectures will be interspersed with demos and time permitting a lab visit to the Centre of Optical and Laser Engineering is planned. Course Content Module 1: Geometrical Optics Geometrical and paraxial optics, aberrations, Ray tracing software - introduction

Module 2: Wave Optics Wave Optics, Principles of interference, diffraction and polarization,

Module 3: Photonics Absorption and Emission - Lasers, LED and laser diodes, Photons and Photoelectric effect, Photon and thermal detectors, CCD Course cost: $1000 per person (10% discount for OPSS and Photonics Consortium members). Cost includes soft copy of course notes and lunch and tea breaks and lab visit Course location: Fusion@MAE (NTU, Block N3.1-B3c-06) Next course date: Aug. 22, 2016 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Instructor Anand Asundi (安顺泰) is Professor and Director of the Centre for Optical and Laser Engineering in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His teaching area is in Optical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics with research interests in Computational Optical Metrology, Photomechanics and Fiber Optics Sensors. He has numerous patents, has published extensively and presented invited seminars/talks at various institutions and at international conferences. He is Editor of Optics and Lasers in Engineering and Fellow of SPIE, the International Society of Optical Engineers and the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He is founding chair of the Optics and Photonics Society of Singapore, Asian Committee on Experimental Mechanics and the Asia Pacific Committee on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology. He has organized numerous conferences and served on the Membership, Scholarship/Awards and Presidential Asian Advisory committees of SPIE and its Board of Directors. He is also the founding director and CEO of d’Optron Pte Ltd.