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Optical Design | Photonics Handbook 2008
A Guide for Designers
With the large variety of beamsplitters available, the designer needs to take many factors into consideration. This article and its illustrations...
Formulas for lens focal length, magnification, relative aperture (f/#), object-to-image distance, object-to-lens distance, lens-to-image distance...
Four important equations from which the image distance and the lateral magnification can be computed for an object at any arbitrary distance from...
A Tool for Successful Design
Optical Research Associates’ Global Synthesis (GS) algorithm has been in use for more than ten years. During that time, the algorithm has been...