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This course will cover the basic optics principles including geometric, beam and wave description of light. The course will also cover the basic generation and detection techniques of light and the principles of optical imaging and spectroscopy. After the basis is established, we will focus on some commonly employed optical techniques and tools for biomedical research including various optical microscopy technologies, fiber optics, Raman spectroscopy, Fluorescence (lifetime), FRAT, FRET and FCS. The recent development in tissue optics, biomedical optical imaging/spectroscopy techniques (such as OCT, multiphoton fluorescence and harmonics microscopy, Structured Illumination, light scattering, diffuse light imaging and spectroscopy, optical molecular imaging, photo-acoustic imaging) will also be discussed. Representative biomedical applications of translational biomedical photonics technologies will be integrated into the corresponding chapters.