Lens Design Fundamentals
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Lens Design Fundamentals

  1. 366 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Lens Design Fundamentals

About this book

A large part of this book is devoted to a study of possible design procedures for various types of lens or mirror systems, with fully worked examples of each. The reader is urged to follow the logic of these examples and be sure that he understands what is happening, noticing particularly how each available degree of freedom is used to control one aberration. Not every type of lens has been considered, of course, but the design techniques illustrated here can readily be applied to the design of other more complex systems. It is assumed that the reader has access to a small computer to help with the ray tracing, otherwise he may find the computations so time-consuming that he is liable to lose track of what he is trying to accomplish.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Lens Design Fundamentals
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. CHAPTER 1. The Work of the Lens Designer
  7. CHAPTER 2. Meridional Ray Tracing
  8. CHAPTER 3. Paraxial Rays and First-Order Optics
  9. CHAPTER 4. Chromatic Aberration
  10. CHAPTER 5. Spherical Aberration
  11. CHAPTER 6. Design of a Spherically Corrected Achromat
  12. CHAPTER 7. Oblique Pencils
  13. CHAPTER 8. Coma and the Sine Condition
  14. CHAPTER 9. Design of Aplanatic Objectives
  15. CHAPTER 10. The Oblique Aberrations
  16. CHAPTER 11. Lenses in Which Stop Position Is a Degree of Freedom
  17. CHAPTER 12. Symmetrical Double Anastigmats with Fixed Stop
  18. CHAPTER 13. Unsymmetrical Photographic Objectives
  19. CHAPTER 14. Mirror and Catadioptric Systems
  20. CHAPTER 15. Eyepiece Design
  21. CHAPTER 16. Automatic Lens Improvement Programs
  22. Subject Index