Nonconventional optical systems using varifocal lenses

Authors

  • Jorge Ojeda Castaneda University of Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Cristina Margarita Gómez-Sarabia University of Guanajuato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v7i1.559

Abstract

We discuss the first order design of four optical devices, which use varifocal lenses for implementing the following optical systems: a single-lens zoom system, a two-lens afocal system with tunable angular magnification, a three-lens telephoto objective with extremely low, tunable telephoto ratio (which does not require any axial displacement between its composing elements) and a telephoto objective that has zero Petzval sum.

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Author Biographies

Jorge Ojeda Castaneda, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

Electronics Department, Professor

Cristina Margarita Gómez-Sarabia, University of Guanajuato

Digital Arts Department

Associate Professor

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2015-04-01

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J. Ojeda Castaneda and C. M. Gómez-Sarabia, “Nonconventional optical systems using varifocal lenses”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. pp. 14–16, Apr. 2015.

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015)

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