| Objectives: |
Objective: The aim of this course is to teach the working principles of basic devices and equipment used in the optician profession, to ensure the correct, safe, and effective use of these devices, to enable students to gain practical skills in measurement, adjustment, and control procedures, and to prepare them for professional practice. |
| Content: |
Content: The content of this course is; The assembly of single-chamber lenses into eyeglass frames and the manufacture of eyeglasses, the assembly of cylindrical lenses into eyeglass frames and axis determination, the adjustment of eyeglass frames to the human face, the marking of the projection of the eye's visual axis onto the eyeglass frame on the vertical and horizontal axes, methods of determining the focal point, methods of determining the focal point from the eye for single and multifocal lenses, methods of measuring pupillary distance, types of bifocal lenses, production stages, segment structure, visible and invisible type bifocal lenses, definition and assembly of bifocal, trifocal and progressive lenses, structural characteristics of bifocal, trifocal and progressive lenses, surface treatments of lenses, marking, blocking, generator processing, smoothing, polishing and cleaning, edge forms and shapes of lenses, areas of use of eyeglass lenses and frames according to their types, vertex powers and focal distance and surface diopter powers of lenses, structure, properties and types of lens grinding discs, methods of mounting lenses into frames made of various raw materials. Lenses can be classified according to their geometric and optical centers. |