EOP601 Optical Design Handouts

• intro.zip (updated 31 May 2011) introduction
• TOL.zip, (updated 21 July 2011) miscellaneous materials related to tolerancing

Summer 2009

• slides 1 (updated 13 May 2009) trigonometric ray-trace, polynomial approximation
• slides 2 (updated 6 Feb 2003) Coddington raytrace, lens design documentation
• slides 3 (updated 7 Feb 2005) Optimization
• slides 4 (updated 2 Mar 2005) Acuity, point-spread functions, aberrations
• slides 5 (updated 3 Apr 2003) conics and aspherics, two-mirror systems, Schmidt telescope
• slides 6 (updated 7 Apr 2003) eyepieces, zoom lenses
• slides 7 (updated 17 Apr 2003) tilt/decenter, zoom, tolerancing
• slides 8 (updated 11 Apr 2007) anamorphic lenses, prisms, more on tilt/decenter

Design Examples (2005)

• doublet design slides (14 Feb 2005)
• triplet design slides (22 Feb 2005)

Matlab and Excel samples

• matlab diffraction examples (updated 1 March 2005)
• matlab PSF examples (updated 2 March 2003)
• matlab design examples (updated 10 Feb 2003)
• matlab triplet design example (updated 10 Feb 2003)
• matlab files (updated 5 Feb 2003)
• Excel spreadsheets (updated 5 Feb 2003)

Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 21 July 2011