Analytical solution of an afocal two freeform mirror design problem

Abstract: 

We investigate a new afocal two freeform mirror design problem in first order optics. The resulting first-order partial differential equations for the freeform two mirror system have an analytic solution with the sole condition that the x-y and x’-y’ axes are parallel. Two selected solutions are presented. One of them is semiaplanatic (fulfilling the aplanatic condition only for the x-coordinates), while the other is, to our knowledge, the first example of an aplanatic two-mirror system without rotational symmetry.

 


Publication type: 
JRC-SCI Magazine
Published in: 
Optics Express, Vol. 25, No. 4
ISBN/ISSN: 
1094-4087
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Publication date: 
February 2017
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