A new family of optical systems employing Φ-polynomial surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21919-21928

  Fuerschbach, Kyle ^a   Rolland, Jannick P ^a   Thompson, Kevin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b SYNOPSYS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; SPHERES;

ABERRATION THEORY; CONIC MIRROR; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DIAMOND MACHINING; FULL-FIELD; INPUT FIELD; LONGWAVE INFRARED; NONSYMMETRIC; POLYNOMIAL SURFACE; SURFACE REPRESENTATION;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054890920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021919     Document Type: Article

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