Modern Classical Optical System Design (MCOSD) shares the author's "bag of tricks", knowledge, experience, and interpretation of optical design fundamentals to the development of optical systems in a modern product development context, where the pace of work is often so fast that engineers have little time to study or review material from a college textbook or even a professional resource book to get started on a design. MCOSD's goal is to provide deep and practical optical system design knowledge in a succinct, effective, and accessible way to optical engineers and designers at all levels.

Topics include imaging principles, elements of lens design, illumination, modelling, analysis, tolerancing of optical systems, and detection. The author uses the Ansys Zemax OpticStudio® program for all of the design examples in the book. Design files are made available at this book's website at IOP Publishing

Ronian Siew obtained his degrees in optics and physics at the University of Rochester. He is an optics consultant with more than 25 years of professional experience designing optical systems, with recent focus on bioimaging and sensing. He has authored scientific peer-refereed papers, four books, and holds two patents, one related to an optical system in a digital PCR instrument that has been applied to Covid-19 surveillance and detection. Ronian also serves as an associate editor in the area of optical design for SPIE's Spotlight book series.