QC 351 A7 no. 71 / Generalized ray tracing is a method of calculating the principal curvatures and directions of the wavefront associated with a ray as it is traced through an optical system. The results of such a ray trace provide important information about the structure of the image and have immediate application to lens design and image analysis. The caustic surface formed by an optical system can be easily determined from the results of a generalized ray trace. An examination of several caustic surfaces formed by different optical systems provides valuable information about the relative quality of the images and indicates some of the advantages of the generalized ray tracing method.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621675 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Parker, Steven C. |
| Publisher | Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Technical Report |
| Rights | Copyright © Arizona Board of Regents |
| Relation | Optical Sciences Technical Report 71 |
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