{"podcast":{"title":"Rays and Waves","slug":"rays-and-waves-7177942","podcast_index_feed_id":7177942,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42261290/42261290-1729282406342-e61660056e2f4.jpg","author":"Rays and Waves","episode_count":16,"summary":"Rays and Waves, a passion project of two optical engineers, Daniel and Steve, who moonlight as podcast hosts. Join them as they explore the beautiful world of optics and photonics. The topics will span across the whole optical universe, demonstrating the versatile applications of optical engineering and sometime feature prominent characters from the community. Ready to dive into the captivating world of photonics?","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942"},"episode":{"title":"Mark Nicholson's Optical Design Journey - Ep 3 - Rays and Waves","slug":"mark-nicholson-s-optical-design-journey-ep-3-rays-and-waves","published_at":"2025-02-18T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/mark-nicholson-s-optical-design-journey-ep-3-rays-and-waves","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves/episodes/Mark-Nicholsons-Optical-Design-Journey---Ep-3---Rays-and-Waves-e2uu15t","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/play/98550397/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-20%2F1186f6d7-87a2-d54a-4478-8f37df904156.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak to Mark Nicholson. Few people have made a bigger impact on how modern optics is designed and analysed. Mark was for 30 years involved with Zemax, one of the optical design software giants on the market. Nowadays Mark is retired, but continues to heavily impact the optics industry by running a YouTube channel called Design Optics Fast which teaches a modern approach to optical design. Join Daniel and Steve as they quiz Mark on his career and best advice to coming optics generation. If you like the show, tell your friends about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! We'd love to hear from you, so feel free to reach out via email at rays.and.waves.podcast@gmail.com Intro music is Good Vibe by Twisterium. Thanks for making sweet music!","meta_description":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak to Mark Nicholson. Few people have made a bigger impact on how modern optics is designed and analysed. Mark was…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3353,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rays-and-waves-7177942/episodes/mark-nicholson-s-optical-design-journey-ep-3-rays-and-waves/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/mark-nicholson-s-optical-design-journey-ep-3-rays-and-waves.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}