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.
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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.