Design and Correction of Optical

Systems

Lecture 0: Introduction
2017-04-07
Herbert Gross

Summer term 2017 www.iap.uni-jena.de

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Overview

 Time: Friday, 8.15 – 9.45

 Location: Auditorium, Beutenberg campus

 Web page on IAP homepage under ‚learning/materials‘ provides

slides, exercises, solutions, informations

 Seminar: Repetition, questions, exercises and solutions of given problems

time: Friday, 10.00 -11.30, 2-weekly

SR 1, ACP, Beutenberg

starting date: 2017-04-07

Mentor: Yueqian Zhang

 Shift of some dates could be possible

 Written examination, 90‘

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Preliminary Schedule - DCS 2017

Law of refraction, Fresnel formulas, optical system model, raytrace, calculation
1 07.04. Basics
approaches
Dispersion, anormal dispersion, glass map, liquids and plastics, lenses, mirrors,
2 14.04. Materials and Components
aspheres, diffractive elements
Paraxial approximation, basic notations, imaging equation, multi-component
3 21.04. Paraxial Optics
systems, matrix calculation, Lagrange invariant, phase space visualization
Pupil, ray sets and sampling, aperture and vignetting, telecentricity, symmetry,
4 28.04. Optical Systems
photometry
Longitudinal and transverse aberrations, spot diagram, polynomial expansion,
5 05.05. Geometrical Aberrations
primary aberrations, chromatical aberrations, Seidels surface contributions
Fermat principle and Eikonal, wave aberrations, expansion and higher orders,
6 12.05. Wave Aberrations
Zernike polynomials, measurement of system quality
Diffraction, point spread function, PSF with aberrations, optical transfer function,
7 19.05. PSF and Transfer function
Fourier imaging model
Rayleigh and Marechal criteria, Strehl definition, 2-point resolution, MTF-based
8 26.05. Further Performance Criteria
criteria, further options
Principles of optimization, initial setups, constraints, sensitivity, optimization of
9 02.06. Optimization and Correction
optical systems, global approaches
Symmetry, lens bending, lens splitting, special options for spherical aberration,
10 09.06. Correction Principles I
astigmatism, coma and distortion, aspheres
Field flattening and Petzval theorem, chromatical correction, achromate,
11 16.06. Correction Principles II
apochromate, sensitivity analysis, diffractive elements
Overview, photographic lenses, microscopic objectives, lithographic systems,
12 23.06. Optical System Classification
eyepieces, scan systems, telescopes, endoscopes

13 30.06. Special System Examples Zoom systems, confocal systems

14 07.07. Further Topics New system developments, modern aberration theory,...

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Literature

1. Saleh / Teich Fundamental of Photonics, Wiley 2007

2. Malacara Geometrical and Instrumental Optics, Academic Press 1988
3. Mahajan Optical Imaging and Aberrations
Part I : Ray Geometrical Aberrations, SPIE 1998
Part II : Wave Diffraction Optics, SPIE 2001
4. Mouroulis/McDonald Geometrical Optics and Optical Design Oxford 1997
5. Welford Aberrations of Optical Systems, Hilger 1986
6. Fischer/Tadic-Galeb Optical System Design, McGraw Hill 2000
7. Malacara/Malacara Handbook of Lens Design, Dekker 2013
8. Kingslake/Johnson Fundamentals of optical design
9. Laikin Lens Design, Dekker 2007
10. Smith Modern Optical Engineering, Graw Hill 2000
11. Geary Lens Design with practical Examples, Willmann-Bell
12. Goodman Introduction to Fourier Optics, Wiley 2005