Description
Book SynopsisOptical lenses have many important applications, from telescopes and spectacles, to microscopes and lasers. This concise, introductory book provides an overview of the subtle art of lens design. It covers the fundamental, optical theory, and the practical methods and tools employed in lens design, in a succinct and accessible manner. Topics covered include first-order optics, optical aberrations, achromatic doublets, optical relays, lens tolerances, designing with off-the-shelf lenses, miniature lenses, and zoom lenses. Covering all the key concepts of lens design, and providing suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this book is an essential resource for graduate students working in optics and photonics, in addition to engineers and technicians working in the optics and imaging industries.
Trade Review'This book's strength lies in delivering a vast amount of knowledge on optical lens design in a succinct manner. It comprehensively describes the fundamental optical theory and state-of-the-art of lens design, including aberrations, achromatic doublets, and lens tolerances. This field has strong impacts in several technologies from telescopes to lasers to microscopes. The target audience for this text is graduate students in optical design and photonics engineers, but anyone concerned with imaging industries will profit from reading this book.' Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics News
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical imaging, first-order imaging, and imaging aberrations; 3. Aspheric surfaces; 4. Thin lenses; 5. Ray tracing; 6. Radiometry in a lens system; 7. Achromatic and athermal lenses; 8. Combinations of achromatic doublets; 9. Image evaluation; 10. Lens tolerancing; 11. Using lens design software; 12. Petzval portrait objective, Cooke triplet and double Gauss lens; 13. Lens system combinations; 14. Ghost image analysis; 15. Designing with off-the-shelf lenses; 16. Mirror systems; 17. Miniature lenses; 18. Zoom lenses; Appendix 1: tables of imaging aberrations; Appendix 2: tables of pupil aberrations; Appendix 3: tables of structural aberration coefficients; Appendix 4: table of aberrations of a plane symmetric system; Appendix 5: the sine condition; Glossary; Further reading; Index.
