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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dilworth, Donald C. (Donald Charles), author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP series in emerging technologies in optics and photonics

IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2020 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lenses.

Optical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

Donald C. Dilworth received a BS in Physics from MIT in 1961. He is the developer of design software starting in 1962 for the Apollo project, and the author of the PSD III optimization algorithm, which is part of the SYNOPSYS(Tm) lens design program. He is the author of 27 publications and owner of 13 patents.

Summary:

Lens Design: Automatic and Quasi-Autonomous Computational Methods and Techniques (Second Edition) shows how these new tools can design systems in minutes that would have required weeks or months of labor using older methods. Powerful search routines that can quickly produce excellent designs starting with plane-parallel plates are described. The principles are explained, and data files are provided so the user can duplicate these systems and learn how to use the new software to solve unexpected problems should they occur. Automatic substitution of real glass types for a glass model, and automatic matching to the testplates of a selected vendor, are fully explained, with examples. Part of IOP Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics.

Contents:

14. A near-IR 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 op? Orientation of pupil

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 lens optimization

28. Tolerance example with clocking of element wedge errors and AI analysis of an image error

29. Tips and tricks of a power user

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

42.1. Zoom spacing

43. Designing a free-form mirror system

44. An aspheric camera lens from scratch

44.1. Encore

44.2. Coda1

44.3. Tolerancing the aspheric lenses

45. Designing a very wide-angle lens

45.1. Wide-angle lens II

46. A complex interferometer

47. A four-element astronomical telescope

48. A sophisticated merit function

49. When automatic methods do not apply

50. Testplate matching

51. Automatic thin-film design

52. Automatic clocking of wedge errors

53. XSYS an expert-systems approach to lens design

54. DUV system with quarter-wave plate

55. Lens coatings, polarization

56. A custom coating with custom materials

57. Focusing x-rays

58. A singlet achromat

58.1. Single-element achromat with no DOE

59. Pupil aberrations and the optical image

59.1. Convolution MTF

59.2. Coherent imaging.

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 OPD1

3.6. Chromatic aberration

4. Using a modern lens design code

4.4. The WorkSheet

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

Notes:

"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 14, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750336956

9780750336949

OCLC:

1231598975

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