Introduction to Lens Design

Optical 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.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Aims of This Book -- 1.2.Topics Covered -- 1.3.The Art of Lens Design -- Further Reading -- 2.Classical Imaging, First-Order Imaging, and Imaging Aberrations -- 2.1.Classical Imaging -- 2.2.First-Order Optics -- 2.3.Imaging Abenations -- 2.4.Computing Abenation Coefficients -- 2.5.Field of View and Relative Aperture -- 2.6.Lens Design Example -- 2.7.Stop Shifting -- 2.8.Parity of the Aberrations and the Principle of Symmetry -- Further Reading -- 3.Aspheric Surfaces -- 3.1.Spherical Surfaces -- 3.2.Conicoids -- 3.3.Cartesian Ovals -- 3.4.Polynomial Surfaces -- 3.5.Abenation Coefficients -- 3.6.Testing Aspheric Surfaces -- 3.7.Control of Spherical Abenation -- 3.8.Freeform Surfaces -- 3.9.User Defined Surfaces -- Further Reading -- 4.Thin Lenses -- 4.1.Thin Lens with the Aperture Stop at Lens -- 4.2.Thin Lens with Remote Aperture Stop -- 4.3.Field Curves -- 4.4.Optical Relay System -- 4.5.Wollaston Periscopic Lens -- 4.6.Periskop Lens -- 4.7.Criterion for Artificially Flattening the Field -- Further Reading -- 5.Ray Tracing -- 5.1.Sequential Ray Tracing -- 5.2.Non-Sequential Ray Tracing -- 5.3.Ray Tracing Equations -- 5.4.Ray T…