Imaging system applications of multichannel configuration

Autor: Jose M. Infante Herrero, Hammed Ahmadpanahi, Guillermo Biot, Julio Chaves, Pablo Benítez, Wang Lin, Jiayao Liu, Juan Carlos Miñano Dominguez, Marta C. de la Fuente
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Proceedings of Optical Design and Engineering IV | Optical Design and Engineering IV | 05/09/2011-08/09/2011 | Marsella, Francia
Archivo Digital UPM
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.897286
Popis: While multichannel configurations are well established for non-imaging applications, they have not been used yet for imaging applications. In this paper we present for the first time some of multichannel designs for imaging systems. The multichannel comprises discontinuous optical sections which are called channels. The phase-space representation of the bundle of rays going from the object to the image is discontinuous between channels. This phase-space ray-bundle flow is divided in as many paths as channels there are but it is a single wavefront both at the source and the target. Typically, these multichannel systems are at least formed by three optical surfaces: two of them have discontinuities (either in the shape or in the shape derivative) while the last is a smooth one. Optical surfaces discontinuities cause at the phase space the wave front split in separate paths. The number of discontinuities is the same in the two first surfaces: Each channel is defined by the smooth surfaces in between discontinuities, so the surfaces forming each separate channel are all smooth. Aplanatic multichannel designs are also shown and used to explain the design procedure.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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