The AOT program prepares you to work in the emerging fields of precision optics, a segment of the photonics industry, and in ophthalmic lens fabrication.

Photonics is the generation, collection and manipulation of light by lasers and other light sources such as light-emitting diodes. Photonics plays a huge role in CD players and other remote control devices, as well as in laser surgery.

The precision optics industry produces high-tech optical elements in the form of lenses and other optical components for the military, aerospace, biomedical, cinematography, machine vision, laser, and telecommunications industries, just to name a few. This industry is growing nationwide and technicians in this field are in demand.