Lens design : automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniques / Donald Dilworth.

By: Dilworth, Donald [author.]Contributor(s): Institute of Physics, IOP - EBA (Great Britain) [publisher.]Material type: TextTextSeries: IOP (Series)Release 5 | IOP expanding physics | Series in emerging technologies in optics and photonicsPublisher: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780750316118 ebookSubject(s): Lenses | Optical instruments | Physics | SCIENCE / Physics / AstrophysicsAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 681/.423 LOC classification: TS517.3 .D555 2018ebOnline resources: e-book Full-text access Also available in print.
Contents:
1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book
2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils
3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and aberrations : the OPD -- 3.6. Chromatic aberration
4. Using a modern lens design code -- 4.1. Using the software -- 4.2. The process of lens design
5. The singlet lens -- 5.1. Entering data for the singlet -- 6. Achromatizing the lens -- 7. PSD optimization
8. The amateur telescope -- 8.1. The Newtonian telescope -- 8.2. The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope -- 8.3. The relay telescope -- 8.4. How good is good enough? -- 9. Improving a lens designed using a different lens design program
10. Third-order aberrations -- 10.1. Tolerance desensitization -- 11. The in and out of vignetting -- 12. The apochromat
13. Tolerancing the apochromatic objective -- 13.1. Fabrication adjustment -- 13.2. Transferring tolerances to element drawings
14. A near-infrared lens example -- 14.1. Design approach -- 15. A laser beam shaper, all spherical -- 16. A laser beam shaper, with aspherics -- 17. A laser beam expander with kinoform lenses
18. A more challenging optimization challenge -- 18.1. Glass absorption -- 19. Real-world development of a lens
20. A practical camera lens -- 20.1. Reusing dialog commands -- 21. An automatic real-world lens
22. What is a good pupil? -- 22.1. Which way is up? -- 23. Using DOEs in modern lens design
24. Designing aspheres for manufacturing -- 24.1. Adding unusual requirements to the merit function with CLINK -- 24.2. Defining an aberration with COMPOSITE -- 25. Designing an athermal lens -- 26. Using the SYNOPSYS glass model -- 27. Chaos in
30. FLIR design, the narcissus effect -- 30.1. Narcissus correction
31. Understanding artificial intelligence -- 31.1. Error correction -- 31.2. MACro loops -- 32. The Annotation Editor
33. Understanding Gaussian beams -- 33.1. Gaussian beams in SYNOPSYS -- 33.2. Complications -- 33.3. Beam profile -- 33.4. Effect on image -- 34. The superachromat
35. Wide-band superachromat microscope objective -- 35.1. Vector diffraction, polarization -- 36. Ghost hunting -- 37. Importing a Zemax file into SYNOPSYS -- 38. Improving a Petzval lens -- 39. Athermalizing an infrared lens
40. Edges -- 40.1. A mirror example -- 41. A 90 degree eyepiece with field stop correction -- 42. A zoom lens from scratch -- 43. Designing a free-form mirror system
44. An aspheric camera lens from scratch -- 44.1. Encore -- 44.2 Coda -- 44.3. Tolerancing the aspheric lenses -- 45. Designing a very wide-angle lens -- 46. A complex interferometer -- 47. A four-element astronomical telescope -- 48. A sophisti
49. When automatic methods do not apply -- 49.1. The 'final exam' problem -- 49.2. The solution
50. Other automatic methods -- 50.1. Testplate matching -- 50.2. Automatic thin-film design -- 50.3. Automatic clocking of wedge errors
Appendices. A. A brief history of computer-aided lens design -- B. Optimization methods -- C. The mathematics of lens tolerances -- D. Things every lens designer should understand -- E. Useful formulas.
Abstract: Lens Design: Automatic and Quasi-Autonomous Computational Methods and Techniques is the first book that interactively describes the newest modern lens design tools. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixe
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1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book

2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils

3. Aberrations -- 3.1. Ray-fan curves -- 3.2. Abbe sine condition -- 3.3. Higher-order aberrations -- 3.4. Spot diagrams -- 3.5. Wavefronts and aberrations : the OPD -- 3.6. Chromatic aberration

4. Using a modern lens design code -- 4.1. Using the software -- 4.2. The process of lens design

5. The singlet lens -- 5.1. Entering data for the singlet -- 6. Achromatizing the lens -- 7. PSD optimization

8. The amateur telescope -- 8.1. The Newtonian telescope -- 8.2. The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope -- 8.3. The relay telescope -- 8.4. How good is good enough? -- 9. Improving a lens designed using a different lens design program

10. Third-order aberrations -- 10.1. Tolerance desensitization -- 11. The in and out of vignetting -- 12. The apochromat

13. Tolerancing the apochromatic objective -- 13.1. Fabrication adjustment -- 13.2. Transferring tolerances to element drawings

14. A near-infrared lens example -- 14.1. Design approach -- 15. A laser beam shaper, all spherical -- 16. A laser beam shaper, with aspherics -- 17. A laser beam expander with kinoform lenses

18. A more challenging optimization challenge -- 18.1. Glass absorption -- 19. Real-world development of a lens

20. A practical camera lens -- 20.1. Reusing dialog commands -- 21. An automatic real-world lens

22. What is a good pupil? -- 22.1. Which way is up? -- 23. Using DOEs in modern lens design

24. Designing aspheres for manufacturing -- 24.1. Adding unusual requirements to the merit function with CLINK -- 24.2. Defining an aberration with COMPOSITE -- 25. Designing an athermal lens -- 26. Using the SYNOPSYS glass model -- 27. Chaos in

30. FLIR design, the narcissus effect -- 30.1. Narcissus correction

31. Understanding artificial intelligence -- 31.1. Error correction -- 31.2. MACro loops -- 32. The Annotation Editor

33. Understanding Gaussian beams -- 33.1. Gaussian beams in SYNOPSYS -- 33.2. Complications -- 33.3. Beam profile -- 33.4. Effect on image -- 34. The superachromat

35. Wide-band superachromat microscope objective -- 35.1. Vector diffraction, polarization -- 36. Ghost hunting -- 37. Importing a Zemax file into SYNOPSYS -- 38. Improving a Petzval lens -- 39. Athermalizing an infrared lens

40. Edges -- 40.1. A mirror example -- 41. A 90 degree eyepiece with field stop correction -- 42. A zoom lens from scratch -- 43. Designing a free-form mirror system

44. An aspheric camera lens from scratch -- 44.1. Encore -- 44.2 Coda -- 44.3. Tolerancing the aspheric lenses -- 45. Designing a very wide-angle lens -- 46. A complex interferometer -- 47. A four-element astronomical telescope -- 48. A sophisti

49. When automatic methods do not apply -- 49.1. The 'final exam' problem -- 49.2. The solution

50. Other automatic methods -- 50.1. Testplate matching -- 50.2. Automatic thin-film design -- 50.3. Automatic clocking of wedge errors

Appendices. A. A brief history of computer-aided lens design -- B. Optimization methods -- C. The mathematics of lens tolerances -- D. Things every lens designer should understand -- E. Useful formulas.

Lens Design: Automatic and Quasi-Autonomous Computational Methods and Techniques is the first book that interactively describes the newest modern lens design tools. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixe

Students of lens design and practicing professionals.

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Donald C. Dilworth (PDF) is president of Optical Systems Design Inc. and has been intensively involved in development and application of computer software for optical design since 1961. He has extensive experience in most areas of lens design, p

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