Free-form optical components in some early commercial products

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5865, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-7

  Plummer, William T ^a,b  

^a WTP Optics Inc   (United States)

^b POLAROID CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspheric lens; Free form lens; Non rotational asphere; Plastic lens

Indexed keywords

ASPHERIC LENS; FREE-FORM LENS; NON-ROTATIONAL ASPHERE; PLASTIC LENS;

CAMERAS; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCESSORIES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 29144447961     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.623875     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Plummer, W.T., "Unusual Optics of the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera" Appl. Optics 21(2), 196-202 (1982).
2. Plummer, W.T., "The SX-70 Camera: The Optics" Optics & Photonics News 5(10) 44-48 (Oct., 1994).
3. Plummer, W.T., J.J. Mader, J.W. Roblee, and J. Van Tassell, "Precision Engineering at Polaroid" Proc. of the Pre-Conf. Day, pp. 24-29, Precision Engineering in Industry 3 International State of the Art, Eighth Int. Precision Eng. Seminar, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France; M. Bonis, et al., Ed. (May 15, 1995). (Because this publication may be difficult to locate, it is available in html form on the web site at http://www.WTPOPTICS.com.)
4. Fantone, S.D., U.S. Patent #4,396,289, "Method and Apparatus for Holographic Testing of Optical Components", August 2, 1983.
5. Plummer, W.T., J.G. Baker, and J. Van Tassell, "Photographic Optical Systems Using Nonrotational Aspheric Surfaces" Appl. Optics 38(16) 3572-3592 (1999).
6. Baker, J.G., and W.T. Plummer, U.S. Patent #4,650,292, "Analytic Function Optical Component", March 17, 1987.
7. Portions of this presentation were delivered orally as the Keynote Address, Winter Topical Meeting, Free-Form Optics: Design, Fabrication, Metrology and Assembly, Am. Soc. for Precision Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 4, 2004. Many additional photographs and drawings that accompanied these presentations are displayed on the web site at http://www.WTPOPTICS.com/ ASPEslides/ASPEthumbs/ASPEthumb.html