| A Brief History |
| Reflection and Refraction; Prisms, Waveguides, and Dispersion |
| Focusing, Imaging, and the Paraxial Approximation |
| Aberations & Image Quality |
| More Aberrations; Optical Design; GRadient INdex (GRIN) |
| Optical Glass |
| Sign Conventions; Thin Lenses; Real and Virtual Images |
| Thick Lenses; The Composite Lens; The Eye |
| Terms: Apertures, Stops, Pupils, and Windows; Single-lens Camera |
| Basics of Mirrors, Magnifiers, and Microscopes |
| Telescopes; Aberrations: Chromatic, Spherical, and Coma |
| IR Lens |
| Optical Testing |
| Aspheric Optics: Design, Fabrication |
| Tolerancing |
| Difractive Optics |
| Manufacturing of Aspheric Surfaces |
| Tolerancing Image Degradations |
| The Cassini Wide and Narrow Field Camera Optics |
| Off The Shelf Versus Custom Optics |
| Industrial and Commercial Applications |
| Opto-Mechanics |
| Diffractive and Binary Optics |
| Integration of Leds |

