Solving conceptual thin-lens components with balanced optical aberrations among
different optical configurations is essential for lens design from
scratch. This paper presents a general and practical method for
building conceptual thin-lens components that can be further optimized
by Code V (a well-known optical design program) to approach specific
aberration targets. The conceptual component consists of a Code V’s
lens module and a hologram with zero diffraction order. The latter
provides spaces for storing the reference data of incident marginal
and chief rays, spherical aberration, central coma, and longitudinal
chromatic aberration without affecting the paraxial ray tracing. Those
reference data are used to evaluate the real aberrations at different
optical configurations by our earlier aberration variation algorithms
[Appl.
Opt. 55, 10363
(2016) [CrossRef] ]. The model helps
investigate the properties of lenses and solve the balanced
aberrations by the optimization process. An example of solving a zoom
lens with different optimization goals is given to demonstrate the
usage of the method. Detailed design data are listed for
verification.
Data underlying the results presented in this paper are not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the author upon reasonable request.
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