Characterizing the shape of freeform optics

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2483-2499

  Forbes, G W ^a  

^a QED TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ASPHERES; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FREEFORM OPTICS; MANUFACTURABILITY; ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIAL; SURFACE SHAPE;

ALGORITHMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

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

EID: 84856503547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002483     Document Type: Article

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