Optical lens design is the process of designing a lens to meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and manufacturing limitations...

opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (prime lens). A true zoom lens or optical zoom lens is a type of parfocal lens, one that maintains focus when its...

A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors...

A camera lens, photographic lens or photographic objective is an optical lens or assembly of lenses (compound lens) used in conjunction with a camera...

optics, a doublet is a type of lens made up of two simple lenses paired together. Such an arrangement allows more optical surfaces, thicknesses, and formulations...

covering optical effects produced by a gradient of the refractive index of a material. Such gradual variation can be used to produce lenses with flat...

an aspherical lens. The asphere's more complex surface profile can reduce or eliminate spherical aberration and also reduce other optical aberrations such...

A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent...

range of manufacturing procedures and optical test configurations. The manufacture of a conventional spherical lens typically begins with the generation...

optical lens assists in the transport of light in an optical instrument. Systems of electrostatic lenses can be designed in the same way as optical lenses...

A corrective lens is a transmissive optical device that is worn on the eye to improve visual perception. The most common use is to treat refractive errors:...

wide-angle lens optical design. This allows for greater clearance for other optical or mechanical parts such as the mirror parts in a single-lens reflex camera...

A photochromic lens is an optical lens that darkens on exposure to light of sufficiently high frequency, most commonly ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In...

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consequently are used in the fabrication of goods at this scale. Optical lens design Optical physics Optician Photonics "ESO Awards ELT Sensor Contract to...

century led to an array of lens designs intended for photography. The problems of photographic lens design, creating a lens for a task that would cover...

An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration. Achromatic lenses are corrected...

misleadingly called the optical centre of the lens. For a real lens the principal planes do not necessarily pass through the centre of the lens and can even be...

The design of photographic lenses for use in still or cine cameras is intended to produce a lens that yields the most acceptable rendition of the subject...

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Crown glass is a type of optical glass used in lenses and other optical components. It has relatively low refractive index (≈1.52) and low dispersion (with...

presents it as a direct optical view through the main camera lens rather than showing an image through a separate secondary lens. DSLRs largely replaced...

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crystal lenses dating back to the Archaic Greek period, showcasing exceptional optical quality. These discoveries suggest that the use of lenses for magnification...

anti-reflection (AR) coating is a type of optical coating applied to the surface of lenses, other optical elements, and photovoltaic cells to reduce...

Gauss lens is a compound lens used mostly in camera lenses that reduces optical aberrations over a large focal plane. The earliest double Gauss lens, patented...

suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials. Extruded glass fibres have applications as optical fibres in communications...

The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...

to build the first Petzval lens in 1840 on behalf of Petzval, whereupon it became known throughout Europe. Later, the optical instruments maker Carl Dietzler...

they do not need large amounts of optical correction, i.e. extra lens elements. The problem arises when such lenses have too short a focal length to fit...