The wavefront aberrations in off-axis spherical mirror with object point or image point

Armando Gómez-Vieyra; Daniel Malacara-Hernández; Julio Cesar Hidalgo-González; Carlos A. Vargas

doi:10.1117/12.981208

18 December 2012 The wavefront aberrations in off-axis spherical mirror with object point or image point

Armando Gómez-Vieyra, Daniel Malacara-Hernández, Julio Cesar Hidalgo-González, Carlos A. Vargas

Proceedings Volume 8550, Optical Systems Design 2012; 85501L (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.981208
Event: SPIE Optical Systems Design, 2012, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

In the current retinal imaging systems, laser cavities or astronomical spectroscopes, there is the need to employ off-axis reflective systems. These systems often use different configuration where the object or image could be at finite distances or at infinity with respect to the spherical mirrors. In this work, expressions for the wavefront aberrations in an off-axis spherical mirror with image point or object point from different cases are presented, analyzed and evaluated. Assuming a relatively small pupil and a small angle of incidence, these formulas are derived from the optical path difference between a reference surface (paraboloid, ellipsoid or hyperboloid), and a sphere. They can be used to design and analyze some off-axis reflective systems.

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Armando Gómez-Vieyra, Daniel Malacara-Hernández, Julio Cesar Hidalgo-González, and Carlos A. Vargas "The wavefront aberrations in off-axis spherical mirror with object point or image point", Proc. SPIE 8550, Optical Systems Design 2012, 85501L (18 December 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.981208

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