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arXiv:1903.11129physics.optics

Single lens telescope

Rafael Guillermo González-Acuña, Héctor Alejandro Chaparro-Romo, Julio Cesar Gutíerrez-Vega

Abstract

We present a singlet lens that behaves like a telescope, it expands light rays and at the incoming and outgoing the rays are collimated. Therefore we called singlet lens telescope. The analytical model adapts the second surface when the first surface is given, in order that at the output the rays are collimated. We test the model using ray tracing tracking for several input surfaces and the results are quite satisfactory.

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9 pages, 4 figures, 10 equations
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physics.opticsOptics

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  1. Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem 2 comments

    • [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03792 "Rigorous analytical formula for freeform singlet lens design free of spherical aberration" [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11129 "Single lens telescope"

      jhnclsView on HNParent context

    • Your suspicion is right, as far as manufacturing goes. The real boon of this discovery is in designing lenses. For example, the authors have already used it to design a single-lens telescope for the first time [1]. I don't know much about the forefront of optics, but at least in…

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