Eyepiece design with refractive-diffractive hybrid elements

Autor: Liping Zhao, Jian Liu, Yan Zhou, Yee Loy Lam, Xiaocong Yuan, Zhisheng Yun
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Systems Engineering.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.405240
Popis: Eyepieces are a part of visual optical systems. Because of their wide field of view and long eye-relief, it is difficult to further improve the existing eyepieces using all-refractive surfaces. Since diffractive elements demonstrate unique characteristics: negative dispersion and non-field curvature, the eyepiece design can be improved by using refractive-diffractive hybrid surfaces. In this paper, several design examples using refractive-diffractive hybrid surfaces to design moderate field of view (FOV) eyepieces were studied. Firstly, a design example using a diffractive surface to replace the negative piece in the cement doublet of a conventional Kellner type eyepiece is presented. Then a design example is given by employing two diffractive elements to replace the negative elements used in the conventional symmetrical eyepiece. For the above examples the eyepiece aberration correction techniques were also analyzed.© (2000) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
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