Lens Design Fundamentals

Emphasises on how to effectively use lens design software packages. Focusing on fundamental methods and procedures of lens design, this book features many lens design problems and examples - ranging from simple lenses to complex zoom lenses and mirror systems - that give insight for both the newcomer and specialist in the field.

List of contents

1. The Work of the Lens Designer2. Ray Tracing3. Paraxial Rays and First-Order Optics4. Introduction to Aberration Theory5. Axial Chromatic Aberrations6. Spherical Aberrations7. Design of a Spherically Corrected Achromat8. Oblique Pencils9. Coma and the Sine Condition10. Design of Aplanatic Objectives11. The Oblique Aberrations12. Lens in which Stop Position is a Degree of Freedom13. Symmetrical Double Anastigmats with Fixed Stop14. Unsymmetrical Photographic Objectives15. Mirror and Catadioptric Systems16. Eyepiece Design17. Computer-Aided Lens Design

Report

"Johnson, a cofounder of the Center for Aplied Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, offers an updated edition of the text by the late Kingslake, a founding faculty member of Rochester's Institute of Optics and widely regarded as the father of lens design in the United States." --Rochester University Magazine

Product details

• Authors: Barry Johnson, R. Barry Johnson, R. Barry (Consultant Johnson, R.Barry Johnson, Johnson R. Barry, Rudolf Kingslake, Rudolf (University of Rochester Kingslake, Rudolf/ Johnson Kingslake, Kingslake Rudolf
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2010
• EAN: 9780123743015
• ISBN: 978-0-12-374301-5
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Academic Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, Applied optics, Precision engineering and manufacturing, Precision instruments manufacture