Optical aberration functions: computation of caustic surfaces and illuminance in symmetrical systems
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 20 (21) , 3723-3728
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.20.003723
Abstract
The use of automatically computed aberration functions for an exact determination of the geometric illuminance and caustic surfaces is demonstrated. Numerical results for two optical systems studied using aberration coefficients to the thirteenth order are presented.Keywords
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