OPT-7531 Optics 2: Applications of Optical Principles
This course, which is the second part of a four-term sequence, continues the study of geometric and ophthalmic optics. The course includes a study of prism and the optics of multifocal lens options including bifocal, trifocal and progressive lenses. Students will learn to measure, order, and verify these lenses. Students will be introduced to lens fabrication, digital surfacing, tints, polarization and lens coatings. The course will review refractive surfaces leading into a discussion of thick lenses. Students will learn about surface power, vertex power, and equivalent power, and examine the behavior of light through thick lenses and multiple lenses in series and learn how these optical systems are different from thin lenses.