Automatic computation of optical focal surfaces
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 20 (15) , 2754-2760
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.20.002754
Abstract
The use of automatically computed aberration coefficients of arbitrary order for an exact determination of the surface of best focus of a symmetrical system, by minimizing the gyration radius of the spot diagram, is demonstrated. For the two optical systems studied, a Schmidt camera and a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, the results from the exact model are found to be significantly different from the paraxial approximation predictions.Keywords
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