Modern Lens Design

The #1 resource in the optics field has been retooled into a "how-to" manual for the lens design process Well-known optics guru Warren J. Smith reveals time-tested methods for designing any major lens type and includes seven fully worked design examples.

ISBN 0071438300   Pages 631 ISBN13 9780071438308 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe   Weight (grammes) 973 Imprint McGraw-Hill Professional   Published in New York Format Hardback   Series title McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering Publication date 01 Nov 2004   Height (mm) 236 Library of Congress QC385.2.D4   Width (mm) 160 DEWEY 681.423   Spine width (mm) 34 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Ch. 1		Introduction		1
Ch. 2		Automatic lens design : managing the lens design program		11
Ch. 3		Improving a design		47
Ch. 4		Evaluation : how good is this design?		71
Ch. 5		Lens design data		85
Ch. 6		Telescope objectives		109
Ch. 7		Eyepieces and magnifiers		151
Ch. 8		Cooke triplet anastigmats		201
Ch. 9		Spilt triplets		247
Ch. 10		The tessar, heliar, and other compounded triplets		259
Ch. 11		Double-meniscus anastigmats		297
Ch. 12		The biotar or double-gauss lens		319
Ch. 13		Telephoto lenses		355
Ch. 14		Reversed telephoto (retrofocus and fish-eye) lenses		395
Ch. 15		Wide-angle lenses with negative outer elements		415
Ch. 16		The petzval lens; head-up display lenses		423
Ch. 17		Microscope objectives		441
Ch. 18		Mirror and catadioptric systems		455
Ch. 19		Infrared and ultraviolet systems		503
Ch. 20		Zoom lenses		521
Ch. 21		Projection TV lenses and macro lenses		551
Ch. 22		Scanner/f-[theta], laser disk and collimator lenses		561
Ch. 23		Tolerance budgeting		573
Ch. 24		Formulary		587

In this new edition of Smith's book, the focus has changed with the times. There are about half as many lens designs in the new edition, and the new material is directed toward design projects. Smith shows what he did, including blunders, to design a lens from first concept to final design. The designs include a cemented doublet, a triplet anastigmat, a Heliar, a Schmidt-Cassegrain, a landscape lens, and many more. The computer program OSLO was used to design the work, but the write-ups are program-neutral. Therefore, this book can be used with any lens design software. This book is a working person's text; there are very few derivations of techniques or derivations from first principles, Maxwell's equations, or Fermat's principle. The assumption is that the reader understands the basic optical principles and may have a command of the fundamentals of classical optical design methods. In short, a compendium of design techniques available today and a prescriptive resource for a variety of already designed lens types that can be starting points for a lens designer's efforts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- D.B. Mason, Albright College Choice 20050601

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