Introduction to Lens Design

José Sasián is Professor of Optical Design at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He has taught a course on lens design for more than twenty years and has published extensively in the field. He has worked as a consultant in lens design for the optics industry, and has been responsible for the design of a variety of successful and novel lens systems.

• Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical imaging, first-order imaging, and imaging aberrations; 3. Aspheric surfaces; 4. Thin lenses; 5. Ray tracing; 6. Radiometry in a lens system; 7. Achromatic and athermal lenses; 8. Combinations of achromatic doublets; 9. Image evaluation; 10. Lens tolerancing; 11. Using lens design software; 12. Petzval portrait objective, Cooke triplet and double Gauss lens; 13. Lens system combinations; 14. Ghost image analysis; 15. Designing with off-the-shelf lenses; 16. Mirror systems; 17. Miniature lenses; 18. Zoom lenses; Appendix 1: tables of imaging aberrations; Appendix 2: tables of pupil aberrations; Appendix 3: tables of structural aberration coefficients; Appendix 4: table of aberrations of a plane symmetric system; Appendix 5: the sine condition; Glossary; Further reading; Index.

'This book's strength lies in delivering a vast amount of knowledge on optical lens design in a succinct manner. It comprehensively describes the fundamental optical theory and state-of-the-art of lens design, including aberrations, achromatic doublets, and lens tolerances. This field has strong impacts in several technologies from telescopes to lasers to microscopes. The target audience for this text is graduate students in optical design and photonics engineers, but anyone concerned with imaging industries will profit from reading this book.' Christian Brosseau, Optics & Photonics News