OSLO users looking to strengthen their optical design workflow can now register for Lambda Research Corporation’s upcoming OSLO Online Training courses. These instructor-led sessions are designed to help attendees work more effectively in OSLO through a structured combination of lecture-based instruction and hands-on examples.
The training is suitable for engineers, researchers, students, and technical users who want a clearer understanding of OSLO’s core tools and practical workflows. Whether you are new to OSLO or looking to refine existing skills, the course provides a focused path through the software’s interface, system setup, optimization tools, performance evaluation methods, and more advanced capabilities.
OSLO 101: Introduction to OSLO
OSLO 101 is a four-hour online training course delivered across two two-hour sessions. The course provides a practical introduction to OSLO and gives attendees a strong foundation for building, analyzing, and optimizing optical systems.
Session 1 takes place on June 2, 2026, and covers the OSLO user interface, spreadsheets, windows, toolbars, command-line basics, help resources, file structure, preferences, operating conditions, and basic optical system definitions. Attendees will also learn how to define system properties, set wavelengths and weights, work with apertures, check systems, and use solves.
Session 2 takes place on June 3, 2026, and focuses on variables, optimization, and performance evaluation. Topics include setting up variables, working with different variable types, using error functions, applying optimization methods, using sliders, and evaluating system performance through graphical and text-based methods. The session also introduces tolerancing in OSLO.
OSLO 102: OSLO Beyond the Basics
OSLO 102 is intended for users who want to move beyond the fundamentals and work with more advanced OSLO features. This course is also delivered across two two-hour online sessions.
Session 1 takes place on June 4, 2026, and covers tolerancing data, tolerancing methods, user-defined tolerancing, and special surfaces such as aspheres, freeforms, splines, diffractive surfaces, and gradient-index surfaces. The session also introduces intermediate OSLO topics including ray aiming, beam analysis, vignetting, relative illumination, multiconfiguration data, afocal systems, perfect lenses, polarization, and partial coherence.
Session 2 takes place on June 5, 2026, and focuses on using data in OSLO and introducing programming workflows. Topics include databases, private databases, catalog lenses, grouping, non-sequential groups, advanced command-line use, lists, private directories, SCP, CCL, DLL workflows, and opening lenses with a text editor.
Practical Training for Real OSLO Workflows
Both OSLO 101 and OSLO 102 are designed around practical instruction. Attendees will follow examples that demonstrate how OSLO tools are used in real optical design workflows, helping them build confidence with the software while improving their ability to apply OSLO’s features to their own work.
All attendees will receive a digital copy of the course notes for continued reference after the training. Attendees who want to complete the examples during the class should provide their own OSLO license.
Register for OSLO Online Training
OSLO Online Training provides a focused opportunity to improve your understanding of OSLO and build practical skills for optical system design, analysis, optimization, and evaluation.