Miniaturization of zoom lenses with a single moving element
Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 8, pp. 6118-6127 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.006118
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Abstract
We present an analysis of single-moving-element zoom lenses in the thin-lens limit and show how the length of these zoom lenses is determined by the zoom-factor, sensor-dimension and the depth-of-focus. By decreasing the sensor size and extending the depth-of-focus, the lengths of these zoom lenses can be reduced significantly. As an example we present a ray-traced design of a miniaturized single-moving-element zoom lens with a 2.3× zoom-factor and show how the exploitation of modern miniaturized detector array combined with wavefront coding enables a reduction in length of almost three orders-of-magnitude to 10mm.
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OCIS Codes
(080.2740) Geometric optics : Geometric optical design
(080.3620) Geometric optics : Lens system design
ToC Category:
Geometric Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 3, 2008
Revised Manuscript: February 24, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: March 20, 2009
Published: April 1, 2009
Citation
Mads Demenikov, Ewan Findlay, and Andrew R. Harvey, "Miniaturization of zoom lenses with a single moving element," Opt. Express 17, 6118-6127 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-8-6118
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