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23 December 2002 Fifty years of lens design: What do we know now that we did not know then?
Robert R. Shannon
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Proceedings Volume 4832, International Optical Design Conference 2002; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486483
Event: International Optical Design Conference 2002, 2002, Tucson, AZ, United States
Abstract
This presentation examines the extent to which the knowledge of how lenses function has (or has not) kept pace with the computational ability developed over the past five decades, and how this has influenced progress in the field of optical design.
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Robert R. Shannon "Fifty years of lens design: What do we know now that we did not know then?", Proc. SPIE 4832, International Optical Design Conference 2002, (23 December 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486483
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KEYWORDS
Lens design

Computing systems

Ray tracing

Monochromatic aberrations

Optical design

Cameras

Image quality

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