The art and science of optical design is a comprehensive introduction to lens design, covering the fundamental physical principles and key engineering issues. The book begins with an outline of the general process before delving into aberrations, basic lens design forms, and optimization. A planoconvex aspheric lens is designed to collimate the emitted light of the fiber optics. Lens design optical sciences and applications of light. The computer program oslo was used to design the work, but the writeups are programneutral.
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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the art of game design. He is the author of three prior books on lens design, including the first edition of this one, and the classics, modern optical engineering and practical optical system layout. This equipment is export controlled and is subject to the jurisdiction of either the itar 22 cfr 120, or the ear 15 cfr 774 regulations. Lens design fundamentals, second edition, is the most comprehensive treatise to be published on the subject of lens design. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Therefore, this book can be used with any lens design software. A wide variety of collimator options are available to. Continuing the bestselling tradition of the authors previous books, lens design, fourth edition is still the most complete. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book.
A comprehensive guide to camera lens design and zeiss nomenclature. Smith is chief scientist at kaiser electrooptics as well as an independent consultant. Continuing the bestselling tradition of the authors previous books, lens design, fourth edition is still the most complete and reliable guide for detailed design information and procedures for a wide range of optical systems. There is no shortage of lens optimization software on the market to deal with todays complex optical systems for all sorts of custom and standardized applications. Designing a planoconvex aspheric lens for fiber optics. Lens design optical sciences and applications of light 1st edition. But all of these software packages share one critical flaw. In this paper even orders of general aspheres are used to describe the aspheric surfaces sag. In his three part series, he discussed 5 lens designed that changed. Optics grinlens a grinlens is used to focus and collimate light sources. A book of lenses, second edition kindle edition by schell, jesse.