Lens Design: Automatic and Quasi-Autonomous Computational Methods and Techniques

Contents
Foreword
Series Editor’s foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
1 Preliminaries
2 Fundamentals
3 Aberrations
4 Using a modern lens design code
5 The singlet lens
6 Achromatizing the lens
7 PSD optimization
8 The amateur telescope
9 Improving a lens designed using a different lens design program
10 Third-order aberrations
11 The in and out of vignetting
12 The apochromat
13 Tolerancing the apochromatic objective
14 A near-infrared lens example
15 A laser beam shaper, all spherical
16 A laser beam shaper, with aspherics
17 A laser beam expander with kinoform lenses
18 A more challenging optimization challenge
19 Real-world development of a lens
20 A practical camera lens
21 An automatic real-world lens
22 What is a good pupil?
23 Using DOEs in modern lens design
24 Designing aspheres for manufacturing
25 Designing an athermal lens
26 Using the SYNOPSYS glass model
27 Chaos in lens optimization
28 Tolerance example with clocking of element wedge errors and AI analysis of an image error
29 Tips and tricks of a power user
30 FLIR design, the narcissus effect
31 Understanding artificial intelligence
32 The Annotation Editor
33 Understanding Gaussian beams
34 The superachromat
35 Wide-band superachromat microscope objective
36 Ghost hunting
37 Importing a Zemax file into SYNOPSYS
38 Improving a Petzval lens
39 Athermalizing an infrared lens
40 Edges
41 A 90 degree eyepiece with field stop correction
42 A zoom lens from scratch
43 Designing a free-form mirror system
44 An aspheric camera lens from scratch
45 Designing a very wide-angle lens
46 A complex interferometer
47 A four-element astronomical telescope
48 A sophisticated merit function
49 When automatic methods do not apply
50 Other automatic methods
Appendix A: A brief history of computer-aided lens design
Appendix B: Optimization methods
Appendix C: The mathematics of lens tolerances
Appendix D: Things every lens designer should understand
Appendix E: Useful formulas
Bibliography