Head of Chair: Alexander A. Shekhonin
Phone: (812) 232-0995
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The Chair was established in 1996 as a result of the amalgamation of the two oldest Chairs: Optical Instruments Theory and Optical Instruments & Computerized Optics. The new Chair became the largest educational department in Russia, being a leader in the area of Applied Optics, Optical Instruments and Computer Optics.

The Chair has eight training and research laboratories for:

• Optical Measurements;
• Optical Instruments for the Controlling and Measurements;
• Microscopes and Medical Optical Instruments;
• Survey Meters;
• Cinematographic and Photographic Equipment;
• Computer Appliance of the Optical Control;
• Evaluation of the Optical Imaging Quality;
• Computer Optics.

There are two computer classrooms for students with Internet access.

The scientific potential and laboratories of the largest Russian research and production institutions - Vavilov State Optical Research Institute, The Joint-stock Company LOMO, Efremov Research Institute of the Electrophysics Equipment - are used as a part of the academic process.

The Chair conducts scientific research and development in the following areas:

• Mathematical methods and computer technologies in design, research and manufacture of optical systems;
• Theory of optical systems and optical imaging;
• Design and assemblage of the complex optical systems;
• High aperture and resolution optical systems.