Abstract

The following improvements have made the LASL lens design system much faster, though less versatile, and have maintained the calculation accuracy: an increment-vector damping technique optimized by a search procedure, analytic differentiation, simultaneous design on all variables, reliable convergence criteria, vignette control by biased violation errors, bounds for the variables, and an enlarged weighting procedure. The designing system optimizes the sizes and positions of many-ray image spots without considering the classical aberrations. As a sample problem the symposium lens has been redesigned.

© 1973 Optical Society of America

Polynomial Ray Aberrations Computed in Various Lens Design Programs

R. Barry Johnson
Appl. Opt. 12(9) 2079-2082 (1973)

Lens design and local minima

Berlyn Brixner
Appl. Opt. 20(3) 384-387 (1981)

CLIMB: a new Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory lens design code

Morris Klein and Berlyn Brixner
Appl. Opt. 15(10) 2583-2587 (1976)

Optical design and analysis program

Ian Powell
Appl. Opt. 17(21) 3361-3367 (1978)

Optical Interpretation of the Merit Function in Grey’s Lens Design Program

Lynn G. Seppala
Appl. Opt. 13(3) 671-678 (1974)