The role of aberrations in the relative illumination of a lens system

Description

Several factors impact the light irradiance and relative illumination produced by a lens system at its image plane. In addition to the cosine-fourth-power radiometric law, image and pupil aberrations, and light vignetting also count. In this paper, we use an irradiance transport equation to derive a closed form solution that provides insight into how individual aberration terms affect the light irradiance and relative illumination. The theoretical results are in agreement with real ray tracing.

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1. Dmitry Reshidko and Jose Sasian " The role of aberrations in the relative illumination of a lens system ", Proc. SPIE 9948, Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XIX, 994806 (October 1, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2237204; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2237204
2. 0277-786X
3. 10.1117/12.2237204
4. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622518
5. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622518
6. NOVEL OPTICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION XIX

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Relative illumination

irradiance transport

aberration theory

lens design

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/622518
Date	01 October 2016
Creators	Reshidko, Dmitry, Sasian, Jose
Contributors	Univ Arizona, Coll Opt Sci, College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States), College of Optical Sciences, The Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Publisher	SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Rights	© 2016 SPIE
Relation	http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?doi=10.1117/12.2237204