Proposal Letter

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The Optics department of Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte Ltd producesprecision optical components for sub-assemblies and instruments. The focus of the production is on the following area:

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Plano Optics

Plane and parallel plates of any shapes, filters and mirrors. Prism with tightesttolerances, cemented prism groups and special index matched optical groups.

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Spherical Optics

Doublets, triples or quadruples lenses, high precision ball lenses and specialedge profile lenses with high surface accuracy, stray light reduction masking,high efficiency functional coatings and direct air gap adjustment capability.

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Optical Coatings

Developing and producing optical coatings like Anti-Reflection, Beamsplitter,Mirror and Filter coatings and also special coatings.

1.2 Industrial Attachment

During the course of the Industrial Attachment, the author was working under Mr.Charlie Ng, with Mr. Donald Ng Boon Yong as his main supervisor in the Opticsdepartment of Leica Instruments (Singapore) Pte Ltd. The author assisted the Opticsengineering management in day-to-day operations.The activities include designing autocollimator holder; Testing, measurement andchecking of optical parts; assisting design and outsourcing of plastic packaging.Some documentation jobs were also done and the documentation system was learnt aswell. Computer aided design software was learnt by making drawings of some optical

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parts. Data processing jobs and assisting staffs in the optics department were donethroughout the attachment period.

1.3 Report Presentation

This report summarises the work carried out and the industrial training experiencegained by the author during the period of the Industrial Attachment up to the time thisreport was documented. The discussion of the projects and jobs undertaken is dividedinto two main chapters in this report. Each project comes with a backgrounddiscussion to provide better...