Systematic design of two-group refractive zoom lenses

Kuang-Lung Huang; Jonathan Maxwell

doi:10.1117/12.246676

23 August 1996 Systematic design of two-group refractive zoom lenses

Kuang-Lung Huang, Jonathan Maxwell

Proceedings Volume 2774, Design and Engineering of Optical Systems; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.246676
Event: Optical Instrumentation and Systems Design, 1996, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The two-group zoom lens is the simplest arrangement which is capable of achieving a modest useful zoom range and adequate aberration correction for practical implementation. The first order layout of these systems is straight-forward and the real battle that has to be fought is to balance the effects of vignetting and aberration stability. This paper reviews the `+-' type, the `-+' type and shows how the quality of the overall performance evolves with the redistribution of aberration correction between the two groups of the zoom system, finishing with the analysis of a practical system which uses a relatively complex construction to achieve high performance.

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Kuang-Lung Huang and Jonathan Maxwell "Systematic design of two-group refractive zoom lenses", Proc. SPIE 2774, Design and Engineering of Optical Systems, (23 August 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.246676

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