Novel aplanatic design method

Weiya Zhang; Roland Winston

doi:10.1117/12.836028

28 August 2009 Novel aplanatic design method

Weiya Zhang, Roland Winston

Proceedings Volume 7423, Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration VI; 742306 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836028
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Aplanatic designs have interested scientists since the days of Galileo, Newton and Descartes. It is remarkable that an onaxis condition which can be simply formulated ensures good off-axis performance. The condition is that rays parallel to the axis intersect rays converging to the focus on the surface of a sphere. In this paper the authors have extended aplanatic designs to refractive media in a non-trivial way, which yields highly compact and fast aplanatic singlets.

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Weiya Zhang and Roland Winston "Novel aplanatic design method", Proc. SPIE 7423, Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration VI, 742306 (28 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.836028

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