This course is a practical, systems level, overview of opto-mechanical engineering, showing how the requirements on the optical system flow down to those on the opto-mechanical design.
Objectives
Knowledge and understanding in
- Opto-mechanical engineering and design process
- Error budgets allocation and tolerances
- Manufacturing, mounting and alignment
- Thermal and structural design
- STOP (structural-thermal-optical) analysis and Bottom-Up budgets
Application of knowledge and understanding in
- Performing Top-down budgets
- Reading ISO-10110 drawings
- Developing an alignment plan with an emphasis on critical tolerances, alignment mechanisms, and pass and fail criteria
- Using the results of STOP analysis for the structural distortion of optical components under static loads
Ability to identify and use data to formulate responses to
- Reading optical, thermal and structural data
Prerequisites
Geometrical Optics
Also helpful
- Practical skill with Zemax Opticstudio
Contents
- Opto-mechanical engineering and design process
- Optical fundamentals
- Optical manufacturing
- Optical alignment
- Structural and thermal design
- Materials properties and selection
- System design
