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Paper Abstract
The process of optical design today is both an art and a science mainly due to the lack of exact and suitable aberration
theory. In this paper we propose an exact (without any approximations) analytical aberration theory. It describes exactly
the relations between the on-axis image aberrations and on-axis object aberrations via so called relative parameters, real
aperture incidence angles, real aperture slope angles, refraction indexes and object distance. The image field aberrations
(distortion, astigmatism, tangential curvature, sagittal curvature and field curvature) are described in a mathematically
exact way by means of relative parameters, real incidence angles and slope angles of the chief rays, refraction indexes,
object distance and corresponding object aberrations. For the image tangential coma and image sagittal coma we propose
differential formulae. To verify the correction of every single aberration we use the commercial program OSLO. The
differences between our and OSLO results for each aberration (except for the tangential and sagittal coma) are less than
1x10-8 mm. In addition we propose some exact aberration's correction algorithms for a very distant object and variety of
constructive design solutions which confirm the truth of the proposed theory.
Paper Details
Date Published: 21 September 2011
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 8167, Optical Design and Engineering IV, 81670E (21 September 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.896887
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8167:
Optical Design and Engineering IV
Jean-Luc M. Tissot; Laurent Mazuray; Rolf Wartmann; Jeffrey M. Raynor; Andrew Wood, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 8167, Optical Design and Engineering IV, 81670E (21 September 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.896887
Show Author Affiliations
Boian A. Hristov, Institute of Optical Materials and Technology, BAS (Bulgaria)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8167:
Optical Design and Engineering IV
Jean-Luc M. Tissot; Laurent Mazuray; Rolf Wartmann; Jeffrey M. Raynor; Andrew Wood, Editor(s)
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