Expansion of an athermal chart into a multilens system with thick lenses spaced apart

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3001-3006

  Tamagawa, Yasuhisa ^a,b   Tajime, Toru ^a,b  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b SPIE ^*

Author keywords

Athermal chart; Athermalization; Chromatic aberration; Optical system design; Thermal aberration

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142569412     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600984     Document Type: Article

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