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Automatic Lens Design for Nonexperts

Journal Article · · Applied Optics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.2.001281· OSTI ID:4106186
Automatic lens design by nonexperts is practical with the 1962 LASL lens- designing code, a general-purpose iterative program for evaluating and designing optical lens and mirror systems with surfaces generated by conic sections. Using skew ray traces, it analyzes lens performance statistically, finds differences resulting from design-parameter alterations, and computes a linear combination that will improve performance. Program characteristics, lens parameters, ray sampling, image evaluation, lens-performance weights, merit calculation, and parameter interactions are briefly described. Sample calculations are given in detail for a Lister-type lens and for a special-purpose zoom lens.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N. Mex.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
NSA Number:
NSA-18-010349
OSTI ID:
4106186
Report Number(s):
LADC-5864; 0003-6935
Journal Information:
Applied Optics, Journal Name: Applied Optics Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2; ISSN 0003-6935; ISSN APOPAI
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

The Condition of Equal Irradiance and the Distribution of Light in Images Formed by Optical Systems without Artificial Vignetting* journal December 1953
Least-Squares Method for Optical Correction* journal March 1954
Automatic Lens Design by the Least Squares Method journal March 1959

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