Optimal local shape description for rotationally non-symmetric optical surface design and analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1583-1589

  Cakmakci, Ozan ^a   Moore, Brendan ^b   Foroosh, Hassan ^b   Rolland, Jannick P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; SURFACE ANALYSIS;

GAUSSIANS SURFACE; LOCAL BASIS REPRESENTATION; SINGLE SURFACES; SYMMETRIC SURFACES;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 39049112796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001583     Document Type: Article

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