Student Optical Design Competition Winners for 2018

Top Awards

Design of an integral-imaging-based light field head mounted display using freeform optics


Automated Lens Database Generation

Caleb Gannon
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Arizona
Using CODE V

Design Study: Dual Band Solar Concentrator/Coupler

The Design of a High Zoom Ratio Riflescope
David Lippman
Ph.D. Candidate
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Using CODE V  

Design of a Telephoto SLR Camera Lens from Scratch

Design of an Ultra-thin Optical Combiner with Microstructure Mirrors for Augmented Reality Displays 
Miaomiao Xu
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Arizona
Using CODE V

Design of a Telephoto SLR Camera Lens from Scratch

Design of a High-NA Achromatic Objective Lens for Endomicroscopy
Mohammad Asif Zaman & Yasin Buyukalp
Ph.D. Candidates
Stanford University 
Using CODE V

Design of a Telephoto SLR Camera Lens from Scratch

Design of a Compact Telephoto Lens for Cellphone Cameras
Dylan Beckman
B.S. Student
Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Using CODE V