Q and a tutorial on optical design

Abstract

There are many good books for optical designers, so we decided not to repeat basic and classical issues, but to answer frequently asked questions which students have put to us during our long-time teaching experience in optical design on different levels-from very beginners to advanced professionals from the EU who came for the project SMETHODS to improve their design skills. This tutorial is divided into two parts: general questions and examples, when students ask how to design some popular schemes.