Abstract

The lens manufacturer and lens designer should communicate throughout the entire lens manufacture cycle which includes design, fabrication, testing, delivery and often, post-delivery. In the early design stages the designer must attempt to choose reasonably available optical materials which have suitable chemical, physical and optical properties, and which are workable. The manufacturer should not be forced to work with configurations requiring inordinately tight tolerances. An example is two extreme lens shape factors which balance each other in almost unstable equilibrium.

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