Tagged with abberation - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/abberation/feed.rss Fri, 03 May 24 01:20:01 +0000 Tagged with abberation - Personal View Talks en-CA Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/22273/goodbye-aberration-physicist-solves-2000-year-old-optical-problem Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:33:13 +0000 karl 22273@/talks/discussions In the scientific paper General formula for bi-aspheric singlet lens design free of spherical aberration Rafael G. González-Acuña and Héctor A. Chaparro-Romo present an analytical solution for a problem that was only solveable by numeric approximation for the last 2000 years: How to shape one side of an (aspheric) lens such that it completely compensates the (non-chromatic-)abberation of the other side.

I'm not quite sure whether the use of the new analytical solution (in comparison to a numeric approximation) will make a significant difference for the practical process of designing lenses, but the article "Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem" at petapixel.com on this is definitely an interesting read.

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