Physics:Aplanatic lens

From HandWiki
Short description: Optical device

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

  1. Pedrotti, F.L. (2005), Introduction to Optics, 2, Prentice Hall International, p. 97 .
  2. Kubacki, Emily (July 2005), "Understanding Lenses: Aplanats and Achromats", Photonics Spectra, https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Understanding_Lenses_Aplanats_and_Achromats/a22346, retrieved 2019-12-10 .
  3. 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, 9, Springer-Verlag, pp. 13–14, ISBN 978-1-4020-2697-3, https://books.google.com/books?id=cPFevyomPUIC&pg=PA13 .