Active glass maps for an optical design program

Schuhmann, Rainer; Adams, Geoff

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“…PreDesigner is also available as a free app for Android mobile phones and tablets and can be found in the Google play store -though this version does not include Gaussian beam tools. Additional discussions on the software, including theory, and some specific applications such as the ray tracing of spectrometers or the design of achromatic lenses is found in [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Easy-to-use software tools for teaching the basics, design and applications of optical components and systems

Gerhard¹,

Adams

2015

SPIE Proceedings

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, "Easy-to-use software tools for teaching the basics, design and applications of optical components and systems," Proc. SPIE 9793, Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2015, 97930N (8 October 2015) ABSTRACTGeometric optics is at the heart of optics teaching. Some of us may remember using pins and string to test the simple lens equation at school. Matters get more complex at undergraduate/postgraduate levels as we are introduced to paraxial rays, real rays, wavefronts, aberration theory and much more. Software is essential for the later stages, and the right software can profitably be used even at school. We present two free PC programs, which have been widely used in optics teaching, and have been further developed in close cooperation with lecturers/professors in order to address the current content of the curricula for optics, photonics and lasers in higher education.PreDesigner is a single thin lens modeller. It illustrates the simple lens law with construction rays and then allows the user to include field size and aperture. Sliders can be used to adjust key values with instant graphical feedback. This tool thus represents a helpful teaching medium for the visualization of basic interrelations in optics.WinLens3DBasic can model multiple thin or thick lenses with real glasses. It shows the system focii, principal planes, nodal points, gives paraxial ray trace values, details the Seidel aberrations, offers real ray tracing and many forms of analysis. It is simple to reverse lenses and model tilts and decenters. This tool therefore provides a good base for learning lens design fundamentals. Much work has been put into offering these features in ways that are easy to use, and offer opportunities to enhance the student's background understanding.

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Easy-to-use software tools for teaching the basics, design and applications of optical components and systems

Gerhard¹,

Adams

2015

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“…Figure 5에서는 부분분산과 분산상수의 유리지도에서 일반적인 삼중 색지움 렌즈의 각각의 유리 위치를 삼 각형으로 도시하였다. [7,8] 삼중 색지움 렌즈 역시 이중 색 지움 렌즈와 같은 사양으로 f/8, f'=100 mm로 구성하여 초점 거리의 변화량을 비교하였다.…”

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Selection of Optical Glasses Using a Chromatic-Aberration Correction Method for the Whole Visible Range Plus a Telecentric Lens Design Applying the Method

Yu¹,

Jung²

2015

Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics

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This paper shows the best selection and combination of glass in lens design, to correct a chromatic aberration using achromatic and apochromatic conditions. Using this research result, we have designed a telecentric lens for machine vision in the full range of visible light. We obtain good optical quality in the form of a quite small RMS wavefront error of 0.057 λ in the super-broadband wavelength range 380 nm -780 nm. This result is better than that for a common telecentric lens in the visible wavelength range 486.1-656.2 nm.

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“…for materials from the main glass manufacturers, and new materials and melts can easily be added. Glass Manager allows the designer to search for glasses with particular properties and to display that data in a wide range of plots, graphs and tables [3]. The designer may define non-standard wave-bands, and the plots will redisplay accordingly.…”

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Optical design is a convenient phrase that covers the whole range of activities required for the creation of an optical system. Optical design usually begins with simple considerations of the spatial envelope of a new lens -finding the object/ image distances and sizes, aperture, focal length etc. The designer must then find a suitable starting design, either derived from basic theory, from his experience or from a design library. This start point will need to be analysed and understood and then optimised to match the requirements of the task in hand [1]. Almost always, optimisation involves repeated simultaneous multi-variable adjustments, and this therefore requires sophisticated software tools as following described in this article.

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Active glass maps for an optical design program

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Easy-to-use software tools for teaching the basics, design and applications of optical components and systems

Easy-to-use software tools for teaching the basics, design and applications of optical components and systems

Selection of Optical Glasses Using a Chromatic-Aberration Correction Method for the Whole Visible Range Plus a Telecentric Lens Design Applying the Method

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