Aplanat lens design book

Barry johnson, in lens design fundamentals second edition, 2010. Field, aperture, pupil, magnification, infinity cases, lens makers formula, etendue, vignetting. The computer program oslo was used to design the work, but the writeups are programneutral. The ultimate guide to lens design using the classic. It is suitable for lens designers, optical engineers, and students with a basic knowledge of microscope structure. We shall use the term aplanat for a relatively thin spherically corrected achromat that is also corrected for osc and thus satisfies the abbe sine condition. Depending upon the particular design requirements, one should. From an early lens still being manufactured for use in lowcost cameras to designs made possible through such innovations as lens coating. Conradys book, applied optics and optical design, parts one and two.

Crosssection for a continuoussurface nonfresnel rr aplanat, from the. Locus of crown glasses for a cemented doublet aplanat, using sf19 as a flint. Pdf lens designs with extreme image quality features. The rapid rectilinear also named aplanat is a famous photographic lens design.

Therefore, this book can be used with any lens design software. Lens design fundamentals rudolf kingslake, applied optics and optical design part 1 and part 2 a. This book presents an indepth look at lenses free of spherical aberrations and is provided using. The initial approximations for achromatic doublets of the. The process of designing lenses is both an art and a science. Modern lens design mcgrawhill professional engineering.

The rapid rectilinear is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups. Lens design fundamentals, second edition 2010 kingslake. Although the original fraunhofer doublet was designed with a narrow air gap, other designs use a wide gap, a narrow gap with the edges of the lenses touching called a contact doublet or a bonded assembly. Use this book along with julie bentleys online course. The top figure is the pointspread function of a lens with coma. As we have seen, a cemented doublet has three degrees of freedom. The optical design of the concentrator utilizes a toroidal relay module, which includes both the offaxis relay lens and field lens design in a single concentric toroidal lens shape. This book provides a foundation for developing design expertise through education, practice, and exploration. Programs and books useful for automatic lens design index.

Conradys book, applied optics and optical design, parts. If one is after the detailed mathmatics of optical design, this is a good book. With practical zemax examples joseph geary, are all great books. It has already been mentioned that abbe used the term aplanatic to refer to a lens system corrected for both spherical aberration and osc.

An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and. Automatic and quasiautonomous computational methods and techniques is the first book that interactively describes the newest modern lens design tools. The design is also corrected for chromatic and spherical aberration, meaning that if you follow the design closely and. Smith, and optical system design robert fischer, introduction to lens design. In 1759 benjamin martin in his book footnotes 8 and 9 informed about the. For the aplanat lenses weve looked at so far, this is in direct conflict with our. Buy lens design fundamentals 2 by rudolf kingslake isbn. Depending on the design criteria, doublet and triplet aplanatic lens designs can employ one substrate material or different materials. More complex achromatic lens designs can improve the precision of color images by bringing more wavelengths into exact focus. Therefore, it is quite expected this design of objectlens did not cause.

Abbe called a lens an aplanat that has an equivalent refractive surface which is a. We have discovered an aplanatic design that contributes to a celebrated problem in classical optics in a novel way. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixed focus and zoom lenses can be optimized, starting from planeparallel surfaces, in a brief time on a modern fast pc compared to traditional tools that require many days or weeks of tedious work. Chapter 1 handbook of optics photonics research group.