Wave-optical design of a combined refractive-diffractive varifocal lens

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 13343-13350

  Thiele, S ^a   Seifert, A ^b   Herkommer, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DIFFRACTIVE MICROSTRUCTURE; HYBRID DEVICES; HYPERSPECTRAL; LEVEL OF INTEGRATIONS; MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; VARIFOCAL LENS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 84901828837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.013343     Document Type: Article

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