Featuring over 700 references, equations, tables, and drawings, this highly lauded and best-selling reference emphasizes practical designs of over 30 lens systems, including single-element, two-element achromats, air-spaced triplets, projection lenses, and sophisticated wide-angle and zoom lenses. It comes with software that supplies starting solutions for computer optimization programs lens prescriptions and several shorter programs to compute the refractive index of glasses from a variety of manufacturers, create lens drawings, perform zoom computations, do test glass fitting, and calculate third-order solutions for single lenses, achromats, and triplets. The Method Of Lens Design -- The Achromatic Doublet -- The Air-spaced Triplet -- Triplet Modifications -- Petzval Lenses -- Double Gauss Lenses -- Telephoto Lenses -- Inverted Telephoto Lenses -- Very Wide Angle Lenses -- Eyepieces -- Microscope Objectives -- In-water Lenses -- Afocal Optical Systems -- Relay Systems -- Catadioptric And Mirror Optical Systems -- Periscope Systems -- Ir Lenses -- Ultraviolet Lenses And Optical Lithography -- F Theta Scan Lenses -- Endoscopes -- Enlarging Lenses -- Projection Lenses -- Telecentric Systems -- Laser-focusing Lenses -- Heads Up Display -- Achromatic Wedges -- Wedge Plates And Rotary Prisms -- Anamorphic Attachments -- Illumination Systems -- Lenses For Aerial Photography -- Radiation-resistant Lenses -- Lenses For Microprojection -- First-order Theory, Mechanically Compensated Zoom Lenses -- First-order, Optically Compensated Zoom Lenses -- Mechanically Compensated Lenses -- Optically Compensated Zoom Lenses -- Copy Lenses With Variable Magnification -- Variable Focal Length Lenses -- Gradient Index Lenses -- Appendices. Milton Laikin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Laikin (President, Laikin Optical Corp.), writing for both practicing lens designers and for aspiring lens designers, provides information on the practical design of a range of lens systems including single element, two-element achromats, air-spaced triplets, projection lenses, and sophisticated wide-angle and zoom lenses. In all, 38 different types of lenses are covered. The emphasis of the material is in aiding the lens designer in finding the proper starting designs that can then be modified by optimization programs. In addition to lens prescriptions, the disk contains a number of programs to compute the refractive index of glasses from a variety of manufacturers; create lens drawings; perform zoom computations; do test glass fitting; an d calculate third-order solutions for single lenses, achromats, and triplets. c. Book News Inc Given an object and image distance, the wavelength region, and the degree of correction for the optical system, it would at first appear that with the great progress in computers and applied mathematics it would be possible analytically to determine the radius, thickness, and other constants for an optical system.
