Applying slope constrained Q-type aspheres to develop higher performance lenses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21174-21179

  Ma, Bin ^a,b   Li, Lin ^b   Thompson, Kevin P ^c   Rolland, Jannick P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS;

ASPHERES; ASPHERIC DEPARTURE; ASPHERIC SURFACES; DOUBLE PRECISION; HIGH NA; LENS PERFORMANCE; LITHOGRAPHIC QUALITY; POWER SERIES; SIGNIFICANT DIGITS; SPHERICAL SURFACE; SURFACE DESCRIPTION;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 80054884543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021174     Document Type: Article

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