Modern Lens Design Hardback - 2004 - 2nd Edition
by Warren J. Smith
Delving deep into the mechanics of lens design, Smith reveals time-tested methods for designing top-quality lenses. He deals with lens design software and provides seven comprehensive work examples, all new to this edition.
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A MASTER CLASS IN PRACTICAL ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AND THE ART OF LENS DESIGN
In this fully revised and updated Second Edition of Modern Lens Design, optics legend Warren J. Smith leads you through the mechanics of lens design, revealing tested methods for designing top-quality lenses. A paragon of design instruction, this volume offers clear explanations of processes, including the use of market-leading design software. You also get 7 comprehensive worked examples, all new to this edition. With this book in hand, there's no lens an optical engineer -- or an enthusiastic amateur -- can't design.
Warren J. Smith's Modern Lens Design helps you with every aspect of any major lens design project, including:
The prescription: Radii, spacings, materials, EFL, BFL, vertex length, object and image distances, magnification, Petzval radius, wavelength, clear apertures, and more
Rays: The axial-marginal ray and the chief ray
Plotting lens aberrations: Ray intercept plots for axis, 0.5, 0.7, and full field, field curvature, distortion, and lateral color
This text features new and updated lens design tables as well as comprehensive instruction in the lens design process, both traditional and CAD. Beginners and experts alike will turn to this book as the definitive source of lens design techniques time and time again.
LENS DESIGN INSTRUCTION, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER
Introduction to Lens Design * Lens CAD: Managing the Software * Improving a Design * Cooke Triplet Anastigmats * Reversed Telephoto Lenses * Infrared Systems * Lens Design Tables * Example Designs * Formulary
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- Title Modern Lens Design
- Author Warren J. Smith
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 631
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies
- Publication date 2004-11-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780071438308 / 0071438300
- Weight 2.26 lbs (1.03 kg)
- Dimensions 9.42 x 6.36 x 1.89 in (23.93 x 16.15 x 4.80 cm)
- Category Technology & Industrial Arts
- Library of Congress subjects Lenses - Design and construction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004057914
- Dewey Decimal Code 681.423
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