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

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"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Why is lens design hard? -- 1.2. How to use this book2. Fundamentals -- 2.1. Paraxial optics -- 2.2. Lagrange invariant, thin-lens equation -- 2.3. Pupils3. 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 aberration4. Using a modern lens design code -- 4.1. Using the software -- 4.2. The process of lens design5. The singlet lens -- 5.1. Entering data for the singlet -- 6. Achromatizing the lens -- 7. PSD optimization8. 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 program10. Third-order aberrations -- 10.1. Tolerance desensitization -- 11. The in and out of vignetting -- 12. The apochromat13. Tolerancing the apochromatic objective -- 13.1. Fabrication adjustment -- 13.2. Transferring tolerances to element drawings14. 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 lenses18. A more challenging optimization challenge -- 18.1. Glass absorption -- 19. Real-world development of a lens20. A practical camera lens -- 20.1. Reusing dialog commands -- 21. An automatic real-world lens22. What is a good pupil? -- 22.1. Which way is up? -- 23. Using DOEs in modern lens design24. 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 user30. FLIR design, the narcissus effect -- 30.1. Narcissus correction31. Understanding artificial intelligence -- 31.1. Error correction -- 31.2. MACro loops -- 32. The Annotation Editor33. Understanding Gaussian beams -- 33.1. Gaussian beams in SYNOPSYS -- 33.2. Complications -- 33.3. Beam profile -- 33.4. Effect on image -- 34. The superachromat35. 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 lens40. 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 system44. 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 sophisticated merit function49. When automatic methods do not apply -- 49.1. The 'final exam' problem -- 49.2. The solution50. Other automatic methods -- 50.1. Testplate matching -- 50.2. Automatic thin-film design -- 50.3. Automatic clocking of wedge errorsAppendices. 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 fixed focus and zoom lenses can be optimized, starting from plane-parallel surfaces, in a brief time on a modern fast PC compared to traditional tools that require many days or weeks of tedious work. Loaded with tips and ideas resulting from over 50 years of experience, the reader will improve their lens design skill. Experienced and aspiring lens designers who master the power of the tools, methods, and principles taught in this book will be able to develop excellent designs now and in the future. Part of Series in Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics.Students of lens design and practicing professionals.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.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, particularly in thermal infrared systems, and he is the author of the well-known SYNOPSYS lens design program, which is used by lens designers worldwide. As author of SYNOPSYS and developer of the popular Pseudo-Second Derivative optimization method, Dilworth has advanced the state of the art in artificial intelligence. Dilworth was senior principal development engineer at the Honeywell Radiation Center, where he was responsible for conceptual and detailed design, tolerancing, and analysis of numerous infrared and visible-light systems, including star trackers, periscope optics and forward-looking infrared systems. He also served as director of the optical design department at Baus Optics Inc., where he developed and implemented techniques for the design of geometric and thin-film optics. Prior to joining Baus Optics, he was employed by Itek Corp. as senior optical physicist. In this capacity he was responsible for designing a variety of advanced optical systems, including aerial photographic lenses used on the recently declassified Corona project, aspheric systems, multilayer dielectric coatings and a submarine periscope. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BS in physics in 1961, he developed computational techniques for optical and thin-film design, which were applied to the design of the optical navigation equipment for the Apollo project.Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 8, 2018).

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