Development of a low cost high precision fabrication process for glass hybrid aspherical diffractive lenses

Journal of Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  He, Peng ^a   Wang, Fei ^b   Li, Likai ^a   Georgiadis, K ^b   Dambon, O ^b   Klocke, F ^b   Yi, A Y ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IPT   (Germany)

Author keywords

chromatic focal shift; glass molding; hybrid aspherical diffractive lens

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FABRICATION; GLASS; LENSES; MOLDING; MOLDS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

CHROMATIC ABERRATION; DIFFRACTIVE LENS; FOCAL SHIFTS; GLASS MOLDING; MANUFACTURING COST; OPTICAL PROFILOMETER; PRECISION GLASS MOLDINGS; SINGLE POINT DIAMOND TURNING;

ABERRATIONS;

EID: 79961236449     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/13/8/085703     Document Type: Article

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