{"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":"Optical Design - Ep 2 - Rays and Waves","slug":"optical-design-ep-2-rays-and-waves","published_at":"2025-01-17T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942/optical-design-ep-2-rays-and-waves","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/raysandwaves/episodes/Optical-Design---Ep-2---Rays-and-Waves-e2t35uu","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fc7e32e8/podcast/play/96621982/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-3-20%2Fe4368d05-8f39-f54e-c1ee-ac2012593afc.mp3","summary":"In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Optical Design. Optical products are all around us, ranging from phones, cameras, cars, communication, grocery shopping, medical devices, and almost everything in between. How to design them? Join Daniel and Steve as they explore optical design from fundamentals of the thin lens equation learned in high school physics to how high-level optical systems are designed today. If you like the show, tell your friends about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! If you want to get in touch, shoot us an email on 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 about Optical Design. Optical products are all around us, ranging from phones, cameras, cars, communication, gr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2020,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/rays-and-waves-7177942/episodes/optical-design-ep-2-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/optical-design-ep-2-rays-and-waves.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}