NIGHTHAWK DIY TELESCOPE: Affordable, High Performance Optics
Team Customers Advisors Additional Assistance Abstract The purpose of this project was to redesign the telescope from last year’s senior design project in a way that was both more compact…
3D Printed Lens Housing Study
Problem Statement This project aims to create a 3D printed lens housing for an f/2.8 system that incorporates seven elements. This system was compared to an aluminum housing designed by…
LIDROTEC – Laser Cutter Focal Shift
Team Theo Taylor – Project CoordinatorRyan Szymczyk – Primary Zemax SimulatorMax Greenberg- Scribe Customer Customer Contacts Marco Smarra and Athul Som Faculty Advisors Professors Wayne Knox, Ed Herger, and James…
ASML DEMUX
In this project, we designed and simulated a compact bulk-optics wavelength demultiplexer for ASML lithography systems. The device separates a broadband light source (500–1000 nm) into ten distinct spectral bands…
PlanOpSim InverseMeta
Our project concentrates on using PlanOpSim’s optimization algorithm software to enhance the efficiency and functionality of nanostructured optical devices. Unlike traditional engineering methods, in which a structure is designed and then tested, inverse design begins with a target optical response and uses computational methods to determine the optimal nanostructure to achieve that function. For our first objective, we designed a metasurface capable of displaying two distinct holographic images depending on whether the incident light is in the TE or TM polarization state. For the second, we aimed to design a metasurface that produces specific colors by controlling the interaction of light with carefully engineered nanostructures.
Automated End-to-End Design of Meta-Lens Based Optical Systems
Primary Customer Contact Lieven Pennick – PlanOpSim Faculty Advisor Professor John Bowen – University of Rochester, Institute of Optics Abstract The project requires an automated end-to-end design of a…
Creating Phantom Retinas for Fundus Imaging – ZEISS
We created model retinas for fundus imaging, which simulate several parts of the retina.
ZEISS – MEMS Scanner Implementation of a Therapeutic Laser in an Ocular Slit Lamp
Team Elizabeth MatchavarianiNathaniel LazzaraHao Wu Customer Stephan MerkelGwen MusialJochen Straub Advisor Doran Teverovsky Vision The purpose of our project is to design an optical system that can update the current…
ASML FIBER
The low numerical aperture multimode fiber project is a detailed fiber design and simulation developed by a team of undergraduate senior students. As such, the inputs were determined through discussion with our project customer, ASML. We are designing a fiber to support ASML’s YieldStar (YS) optics sensor for scanning wafers using white light with the wavelength range of 400 to 1000 nm and another fiber to operate at a wavelength of 1070 nm meant to preheat a mirror for a separate lithography machine.