Lens Design Fundamentals

Emphasises on how to effectively use lens design software packages. Focusing on fundamental methods and procedures of lens design, this book features many lens design problems and examples - ranging from simple lenses to complex zoom lenses and mirror systems - that give insight for both the newcomer and specialist in the field.

Autorentext
Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was a founding faculty member of the Institute of Optics at The University of Rochester (1929) and remained teaching until 1983. Concurrently, in 1937 he became head of the lens design department at Eastman Kodak until his retirement in 1969. Dr. Kingslake published numerous papers, books, and was awarded many patents. He was a Fellow of SPIE and OSA, and an OSA President (1947-48). He was awarded the Progress Medal from SMPTE (1978), the Frederic Ives Medal (1973), and the Gold Medal of SPIE (1980). R. Barry Johnson has been involved for over 50 years in lens design, optical systems design, and electro-optical systems engineering. He has been a faculty member at three academic institutions engaged in optics education and research, co-founder of the Center for Applied Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, employed by a number of companies, and provided consulting services. Dr. Johnson is an SPIE Fellow and Honorary Member, OSA Fellow, Institute of Physics Fellow, and a Past SPIE President (1987). He published numerous papers, several books, has been awarded many patents, and is the Institute of Physics Book Series Editor for Emerging Technologies in Optics and Photonics. Dr. Johnson was founder and Chairman of the SPIE Lens Design Working Group (1988-2002), and a perennial chair of the annual SPIE Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering Conference.

Klappentext

Rudolf Kingslake is regarded as the father of lens design; his book, not revised since its publication in 1978, is viewed as a classic in the field. Naturally, the field has developed considerably since the book was published. The most obvious change is the availability of powerful lens design software packages, which all lens designers use. However, a lens designer still needs to understand the fundamentals of lens design, otherwise a design could be faulty, costly to develop and difficult to manufacture. The market for the book has increased considerably since publication, as optical systems are being implemented in a wide variety of applications, including cameras in cellular phones, digital cameras, medical instruments, display systems, infrared sensors, web cams, money scanners, etc. The advent of software packages for lens design has meant there are a lot more engineers carrying out design than when the book was first published. This book provides the skills and knowledge to move into the exciting world of contemporary lens design and develop the practical lenses needed for the great variety of 21st-century applications. In keeping with market trends, this book has been thoroughly updated and includes two new chapters on the effective use of lens design software packages.

Zusammenfassung

"Johnson, a cofounder of the Center for Aplied Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, offers an updated edition of the text by the late Kingslake, a founding faculty member of Rochester's Institute of Optics and widely regarded as the father of lens design in the United States." --Rochester University Magazine

Inhalt

1. The Work of the Lens Designer2. Ray Tracing3. Paraxial Rays and First-Order Optics4. Introduction to Aberration Theory5. Axial Chromatic Aberrations6. Spherical Aberrations7. Design of a Spherically Corrected Achromat8. Oblique Pencils9. Coma and the Sine Condition10. Design of Aplanatic Objectives11. The Oblique Aberrations12. Lens in which Stop Position is a Degree of Freedom13. Symmetrical Double Anastigmats with Fixed Stop14. Unsymmetrical Photographic Objectives15. Mirror and Catadioptric Systems16. Eyepiece Design17. Computer-Aided Lens Design