The basic shape of landscape lens

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⚫ Specification of the optical system

f/5, EFL 50mm, entrance pupil diameter: 10mm

±10°FoV ， visible region
RMS spot radius ~ airy disk

⚫ Paraxial & system layout

⚫ Setup in the simulation program

⚫ Optimization process for optical performance

Initial RMS radius : 54.604、90.432、127.374
After optimization : 39.399、37.947、55.956

But it is still a long way away from target airy radius of 3.5
micrometer，this show us a single lens in the landscape
configuration can not give us the image quality we need.
And the lens aberrations are dominated by focus and spherical
We can see that surface 4 adding a large amount of spherical，so the
design is dominated by spherical.

If we scale down the focus length by 10mm, remains at f/5，we will

find the RMS radius is much closer to the 3.5 micro diffraction limit!
 Let us scale the focal length again to 2.5 mm

The RMS radius is less than airy disk

So as we scale down the focal length with the f/# remains the
same，we will get smaller aperture along with the focus length!

⚫ Comment and decision in the design process

The basic shape of landscape lens can give us good imaging at
smaller aperture，we naturally get closer to the paraxial properties of
the lens
These days from mobile phones，car backup lens，drone lens，
they give sharp image at least in part because they are so small. A
small lens will admit less light than a large one by the ratios of their
diameters squared
Additionally the image size scales and becomes proportionally
smaller，but modern silicon detector are small in any case that solve
this problem!