A modification of the Double-Gauss design with two diffractive surfaces is described with very enhanced performance. The key is an interaction between the aberrations of the two diffractive surfaces and the aberrations of a curved substrate lens.
Modified freeform offner, august 11, 2021Dave Shafer
An Offner 1.0X relay system can be given a greatly increased field size with good aberration correction by adding to the design two 45 degree flat fold mirrors that are given some freeform aspheric deformation.
A modification of the Double-Gauss design with two diffractive surfaces is described with very enhanced performance. The key is an interaction between the aberrations of the two diffractive surfaces and the aberrations of a curved substrate lens.
Modified freeform offner, august 11, 2021Dave Shafer
An Offner 1.0X relay system can be given a greatly increased field size with good aberration correction by adding to the design two 45 degree flat fold mirrors that are given some freeform aspheric deformation.
Innovation in optical design - a short historyDave Shafer
A short history of innovation in optical design, with literally "thinking outside the box" - seeing new optical ways to use a particular spatial region, like a box.
One example is given of a fast speed wide angle telescope design that uses freeform aspherics to give great performance gains compared to conventional aspherics
New catadioptric design type fast speed and wide fieldDave Shafer
A very simple catadioptric design is described that is capable of providing fast speed, like f/1.0, over a telecentric 65 degree field diameter with excellent aberration correction and an external pupil
A survey of some unusual telescope designs. One has a 20 meter diameter f/1.0 spherical primary mirror while others are suitable for amateur astronomers to make.
Extreme pixels per volume optical designDave Shafer
The surprising benefits are shown of superimposing a diffractive surface on top of an aspheric surface to get very high performance designs with a very narrow spectral bandwidth. The combination on the same surface allows independent control of a ray's direction and phase..
Dennis gabor's catadioptric design and some new variationsDave Shafer
A variety of optical designs are developed and discussed, inspired by Gabor's very simple and largely unknown design. Some are extremely high NA (0.999!!!) with a wide field of view and diffraction-limited correction.
A method is described of designing cell phone lenses that automatically results in much smoother surfaces without the usual very "wiggly" aspheric shapes.
A wide angle fast speed unobscured freeform aspheric mirror design for the IR is shown to be enormous in size compared to an all refractive 3 element lens of germanium with conventional aspherics and better performance.
Freeform aspheric version of the 1.0 x offner relay, june 08, 2019Dave Shafer
A better version of my other Slideshare posting on this topic, with fancier graphics - due to my co-author Luc Gilles. Notice, in particular, the 5 reflection design at the end of the slides. It would be much more useful than the 3 reflection design, due to a wide separation of object and image.
A high performance design is described that uses freeform aspherics to give an unobscured reflective telescope with a 22 degree field of view at f/2.0 on a flat image with no vignetting. The entrance pupil is out in front of the system, one focal length in front, and that is very difficult to achieve.
Schmidt's three lens corrector for a spherical mirrorDave Shafer
Schmidt's aspheric plate in a Schmidt telescope design can be replaced by a group of three spherical lenses, as Schmidt himself showed, but he died before he could publish anything on this. Here I show many alternate versions to Schmidt's design.
A remarkable new telescope objective designDave Shafer
A new apochromatic telescope objective is described, due to Joe Bietry, which is fast speed and has astigmatism correction to give very high performance while minimizing the cost of the expensive anomalous dispersion glasses used.
A 100 mm focal length f/1.25 design is described with a 20 degree field diameter and a curved image. It is diffraction-limited over the field from .486u to .6563u.
Innovation in optical design - a short historyDave Shafer
A short history of innovation in optical design, with literally "thinking outside the box" - seeing new optical ways to use a particular spatial region, like a box.
One example is given of a fast speed wide angle telescope design that uses freeform aspherics to give great performance gains compared to conventional aspherics
New catadioptric design type fast speed and wide fieldDave Shafer
A very simple catadioptric design is described that is capable of providing fast speed, like f/1.0, over a telecentric 65 degree field diameter with excellent aberration correction and an external pupil
A survey of some unusual telescope designs. One has a 20 meter diameter f/1.0 spherical primary mirror while others are suitable for amateur astronomers to make.
Extreme pixels per volume optical designDave Shafer
The surprising benefits are shown of superimposing a diffractive surface on top of an aspheric surface to get very high performance designs with a very narrow spectral bandwidth. The combination on the same surface allows independent control of a ray's direction and phase..
Dennis gabor's catadioptric design and some new variationsDave Shafer
A variety of optical designs are developed and discussed, inspired by Gabor's very simple and largely unknown design. Some are extremely high NA (0.999!!!) with a wide field of view and diffraction-limited correction.
A method is described of designing cell phone lenses that automatically results in much smoother surfaces without the usual very "wiggly" aspheric shapes.
A wide angle fast speed unobscured freeform aspheric mirror design for the IR is shown to be enormous in size compared to an all refractive 3 element lens of germanium with conventional aspherics and better performance.
Freeform aspheric version of the 1.0 x offner relay, june 08, 2019Dave Shafer
A better version of my other Slideshare posting on this topic, with fancier graphics - due to my co-author Luc Gilles. Notice, in particular, the 5 reflection design at the end of the slides. It would be much more useful than the 3 reflection design, due to a wide separation of object and image.
A high performance design is described that uses freeform aspherics to give an unobscured reflective telescope with a 22 degree field of view at f/2.0 on a flat image with no vignetting. The entrance pupil is out in front of the system, one focal length in front, and that is very difficult to achieve.
Schmidt's three lens corrector for a spherical mirrorDave Shafer
Schmidt's aspheric plate in a Schmidt telescope design can be replaced by a group of three spherical lenses, as Schmidt himself showed, but he died before he could publish anything on this. Here I show many alternate versions to Schmidt's design.
A remarkable new telescope objective designDave Shafer
A new apochromatic telescope objective is described, due to Joe Bietry, which is fast speed and has astigmatism correction to give very high performance while minimizing the cost of the expensive anomalous dispersion glasses used.
A 100 mm focal length f/1.25 design is described with a 20 degree field diameter and a curved image. It is diffraction-limited over the field from .486u to .6563u.
Freeform aspheric telescope with an external pupilDave Shafer
A 4 mirror telescope design with freeform aspherics is described which has a distant external front pupil, for those situations that require this. It is unobscured and has a 10 degree diameter field at f/3.0 on an unvignetted flat image.
Some color correction studies with diffractive or metasurfacesDave Shafer
Some designs are shown with a single glass type plus diffractive or metasurfaces which bring 4 or even 5 wavelengths to the same focus. Induced color is the explanation.
Here is a Fujinon Binocular training presentation I created a few years back to explain some of the major differences and features of Fujinon Binoculars.
A survey of some interesting Gregorian telescope designs includes some with all spherical surfaces as well as some with a 20 meter spherical f/1.0 primary mirror and sub-aperture corrector mirrors.
Design and Analysis of Modified Photonic Crystal Fiber with Low Confinement Lossijsrd.com
Fluorine doped silica tubes are used instead of air holes to reduce the problem associated with deformities during manufacturing of Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF). But when fluorine doped silica tubes are used the confinement loss of fiber will be greater than that of air holed one. In this paper, we propose a new structure for this type of modified PCF which gives very low confinement loss. Also, we analyze some of the optical properties of the proposed structure such as effective refractive index, effective area and compared it with the normal hexagonal PCF.
The challenge is to design a high performance replacement lens for a monochromatic triplet design, using as many lenses as you like, but it must go in exactly the same space (box) as the triplet.
By using a diffractive surface to provide most of the focusing power, combined with aspheric lenses, a simple fast speed wide angle design is possible with excellent image quality. But a very large amount of color limits the useful spectral bandwidth to a very small amount.
A freeform aspheric version of the classic Dyson design gives much improved aberration correction and makes for designs that are fast speed and have a large field size, especially large rectangular strip fields
New optical system corrected for all third order aberrations for all conjugat...Dave Shafer
An afocal unit magnification optical system is described which is corrected for 3rd order spherical aberration, coma, astigmatism, Petzval and distortion for all conjugate distances
The biblical Exodus - what really happened?Dave Shafer
An attempt to explain by natural causes most of the events of the biblical Exodus as If they had actually happened. Whether or not they did happen is not relevant to this presentation.
6th International Conference on Machine Learning & Applications (CMLA 2024)ClaraZara1
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Literature Review Basics and Understanding Reference Management.pptxDr Ramhari Poudyal
Three-day training on academic research focuses on analytical tools at United Technical College, supported by the University Grant Commission, Nepal. 24-26 May 2024
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ACEP Magazine edition 4th launched on 05.06.2024Rahul
This document provides information about the third edition of the magazine "Sthapatya" published by the Association of Civil Engineers (Practicing) Aurangabad. It includes messages from current and past presidents of ACEP, memories and photos from past ACEP events, information on life time achievement awards given by ACEP, and a technical article on concrete maintenance, repairs and strengthening. The document highlights activities of ACEP and provides a technical educational article for members.
2. This is a design for a 4 inch
f/10 telescope objective
that is well corrected for a
wide spectral region. It uses
one anomalous dispersion
glass and two ordinary glass
types. The low dispersion
Ohara glass FPL51 is key to
the good color correction.
Ohara FPL53 glass has even
lower dispersion but is
substantially more
expensive and has inferior
chemical and hardness
qualities compared to FPL51
The central lens of Ohara FPL51 glass has the
same radius on both sides.
3. Radius thickness semi-aperture glass
1 552.153099 8.000000 52.000000 BK7
2 241.117587 16.000000 52.000000 S-FPL51
3 -241.117587 8.000000 52.000000 K7
4 -2.4715e+03 982.000000 52.000000 AIR
Image radius -377.411699
Design data is in mm. 100 mm aperture diameter, 1000 mm focal length. On a curved
image it has a polychromatic (.4358u to .7000u) wavefront error of about .06 waves
r.m.s. at the edge of a 1.0 degree diameter field.