An aplanatic lens is a lens that is free of both spherical and coma aberrations. [1] Aplanatic lenses can be made by combining two or three lens elements. [2] A single-element aplanatic lens is an aspheric lens whose surfaces are surfaces of revolution of a cartesian oval. [3]
References
- ^ Pedrotti, F.L. (2005), Introduction to Optics, vol. 2, Prentice Hall International, p. 97.
- ^ Kubacki, Emily (July 2005), "Understanding Lenses: Aplanats and Achromats", Photonics Spectra, retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan (2004), Lenses and waves: Christiaan Huygens and the mathematical science of optics in the seventeenth century, Archimedes, New studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology, vol. 9, Springer-Verlag, pp. 13–14, ISBN 978-1-4020-2697-3.
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An aplanatic lens is a lens that is free of both spherical and coma aberrations. [1] Aplanatic lenses can be made by combining two or three lens elements. [2] A single-element aplanatic lens is an aspheric lens whose surfaces are surfaces of revolution of a cartesian oval. [3]
References
- ^ Pedrotti, F.L. (2005), Introduction to Optics, vol. 2, Prentice Hall International, p. 97.
- ^ Kubacki, Emily (July 2005), "Understanding Lenses: Aplanats and Achromats", Photonics Spectra, retrieved 2019-12-10.
- ^ Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan (2004), Lenses and waves: Christiaan Huygens and the mathematical science of optics in the seventeenth century, Archimedes, New studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology, vol. 9, Springer-Verlag, pp. 13–14, ISBN 978-1-4020-2697-3.
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