OPTICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN (OSE 6265)

James E. Harvey, Instructor

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive foundation in design principles of lens and mirror optical systems, and the evaluation of designs using computer techniques. The lectures include an introduction to optical system design, methods of lens design, optimization, paraxial layout, achromatization methods, Petzval curvature, 3rd and higher order optical aberrations, and image quality metrics. Skills learned will include 1st and 3rd-order hand calculations (performing paraxial ray traces, developing 1st-order optical layouts, and performing 3rd-order aberration calculations), optical design code skills including optimization and image analysis, and optical design philosophy skills.

COURSE OUTLINE

1.0 Introduction
        1.1 Course Description, Text and Reference Material, Grading Policy, Academic Ethics, Skills to be Learned.
        1.2 Hierarchy of Optical Theories, Concepts of Geometrical Optics, Snell’s Law, Fermat’s Principle, Setting the Stage.
        1.3 Aberrations and Image Quality Criteria, The Optical Design Process, Historical Development of Aberration Theory.
        1.4 Specifications and Image Quality Requirements.
 
2.0 ZEMAX
      2.1 Introduction to ZEMAX, Data Entry, Inserting a Prescription, Dialog Boxes, Layout, First Order Properties.
     2.2 Analysis, Keeping Track of Designs, ZEMAX Glass Catalog, Ray Selection.
3.0 Sign Convention and Aspheres
     3.1 Sign Convention and Aspheres.
     3.2 Aspheric Surfaces, Departure from a Sphere.
4.0 The Paraxial World
      4.1 Paraxial Ray Trace Equations, Gaussian Lens Formula, What Lenses Look Like in the PRT World.
     4.2 Determination of Surface Power, Other Important Power Expressions, Principle Plane Locations, Magnification.
5.0 Stops and Pupils
     5.1 Stops and Pupils, Marginal and Chief Rays, Locating buried Stop Entrance and Exit Pupils.
     5.2 Pupil Size and F/No., The Lagrange Invariat.
 6.0 Glass and the Landscape Lens
       6.1 Glass Properties, Refractive Index, Dispersion, The Glass Chart, Melt Data, Partial Dispersion.
      6.2 Stop Shifts and Aberration Control, The Wollaston Rear Landscape Lens, Historical Note.
7.0 Aberrations in General

7.1        7.1 Ray Aberrations, the Spot Diagram, the Ray Fan Plot, Wavefront Aberrations, the Seidel Aberrations.

             7.2 Interaction of Wavefronts with Optical Systems, Wavefront Descriptions, Wavefronts and Diffraction

        7.3 The Connection between Image Plane and Pupil Plane Aberrations, The Abbe Sine Condition.
8.0 Solves and Merit Function
      8.1 The M-solve, The F-Solve, Rings and Arms, The Merit Function
     8.2 RMS Spot Size, RMS Spot Plots.
9.0 Splitting a Lens
      9.1 Lens Splitting, Microlithography and Lens Splitting,
      9.2 Fizeau Interferometry.
10.0 Spherical Aberration
         10.1 Heuristic Approach to Wijk
       10.2 Thin Lens Form for W040

11.0 Lens Bending and Aberration Balancing
         11.1 Thin Lens Bending
         11.2 Aberration Balancing: Spherical Aberration and Defocus

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