Hamilton’s angle characteristic in closed form for generally configured conic and toric interfaces

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1270-1278

  Forbes, G W ^a   Stone, Bryan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; CONES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SURFACES;

CONIC INTERFACES; HAMILTON'S ANGLE CHARACTERISTIC; TORIC INTERFACES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0027610267     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.10.001270     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. See, for example, H. A Buchdahl, An Introduction to Hamiltonian Optics (Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1970; Dover, New York, 1993), Sec. 117.
2. R. K. Luneburg, Mathematical Theory of Optics (U. California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1964), Sec. 25.
3. A. W Conway and J. L. Synge, The Mathematical Papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, 1931), Vol. I. See, for example, pp. 388-391.
4. G. W Forbes and B. D. Stone, “Restricted characteristic functions for general optical configurations,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10, 1263-1269 (1993).
5. J. L. Synge, “Hamilton’s method in geometrical optics,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. 27, 75-82 (1937).
6. For consistency, this rotation and the associated notation are identical to those used in B. D. Stone and G. W. Forbes, “Foundations of second-order layout for asymmetric systems,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 9, 2067-2082 (1992).