4 Lectures  – Introduction to Kinematic Mount Design(Basics)

Optical and Mechanical Materials: Material properties, Need for mechanical mounts.  Stress Transfer Mechanism: Mechanical Design for minimum stress transfer. Design of Mechanical Mounts for Lenses and Mirrors: Gimbal Mount, Closed form solutions. Different categories of Mechanical Mounts, Fine Mechanics design, Linear and nonlinear movements; CAMS.

Optical field, interaction between light and matter; basic concept of reflection (specular and diffuse), refraction, transmission, absorption and scattering, speckle and its applications, coherence: temporal and spatial, van Cittert-Zernike theorem and its applications, polarized light, Stokes parameters, Jones and Muller matrices, Interferometer and its extension to polarization domain, diffraction, optical singular fields. Gaussian theory of optical system