OPTI-502 Optical Design and Instrumentation I OPTI-502 Optical Design and Instrumentation I © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp 20-2 20-1 z 3 2 Because of the higher index for the higher index Because of Blue or F light, Blue light is bent is closest the Blue focusmore and to the lens. d corresponding to the F, The foci and C wavelengths are not evenly the the shape of to spaced due dispersion curve. 1 12 1 Section 20 C nCC length, so will length, so the focal length. f 1 Chromatic Effects d F n Where do Red, Green (or Yellow) and Blue focus? Where Yellow) Red, Green do (or For a thin lens: For a with wave changes Since the index Chromatic Aberration Chromatic 20-3 OPTI-502Optical Designand Instrumentation I
Axial or Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Axial chromatic aberration or axial color is a variation of the system focal length with wavelength. FdC
z f f = fd
FC nCCnCC F 1112 C 12
nnCCFC12
11F C nn ffCF f FC nCCd 1 12 CF CF nd 1 ff f 2 n 1 CF 2 CF d d CF d ddnCC1 12 nnF C dd11f ffCF f 2 d dd FC
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Axial Chromatic Aberration - Continued © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
FCf CF 1 d F cFC FC ddf f f ff f d f 1 CF CF ffCF f
Since Abbe numbers are typically 30-70, the longitudinal chromatic aberration of a singlet is 1.5-3% of the focal length. The relative order of the foci is reversed for a negative lens. F focuses closest to the lens for both a positive and a negative lens.
Longitudinal focus position: z from d focus
Because of the flattening of the dispersion curve, the d-C F d C separation tends to be less than the F-d separation. 20-5 OPTI-502Optical Designand Instrumentation I
Axial Chromatic Aberration of a Negative Lens © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
For a negative lens, the Blue or F focus remains closest to the lens as Blue light has the largest ray bending. Of course all of the foci are virtual, but the order relative to the lens is the same for a negative or positive lens. F d C d F C
z
f
f = fd
The same relationships hold but now the quantities are negative:
f 1 f 1 F cFC FC CF ddf f f ffCF f CF
ffdd 00 f CFFC f 0 0
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Axial or Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
The blur associated with the chromatic aberration of the objective lens limits the performance of an objective.
z
Blur
To reduce the blur, a small diameter objective lens is required. Since the longitudinal aberration f is constant for a given f, the blur is proportional to the lens diameter.
z
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Transverse Axial Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Transverse axial chromatic aberration measures the image blur size due to axial chromatic aberration.
TA rP CH
z
f f
f f
The rays from the edge of the pupil are approximately parallel in the vicinity of the focus. Remember that the axial chromatic is 1.5-3% of the focal length and that the diagram is greatly exaggerated.
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Transverse Axial Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Transverse axial chromatic aberration measures the image blur size due to axial chromatic aberration.
Because f f , the three marginal rays (F, d and C) are approximately parallel. Rays from edge of pupil TA TA tanU CH CH f z r U tanU P FdC f f TA r CH P ff
TA f 1 TA depends only on the glass and the pupil CH CH radius r (assumes that the stop is at the lens). rfP P
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Transverse Axial Chromatic Aberration – Alternate Derrivation © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Consider the edge of the lens to be a thin prism of Abbe Number with a deviation and a dispersion .
,0
r P TACH
z f
rP rP Blur TACH f f f r Blur TAP f CH f The blur is the product of the dispersion and the focal length. rP TACH The ray deviation and dispersion grow as the pupil radius normalized by the focal length.
The net result is independent of the focal length.
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Lateral Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Longitudinal chromatic aberration is chromatic aberration of the marginal ray of the system.
Lateral chromatic aberration or lateral color is caused by dispersion of the chief ray.
C d F z Stop Image Plane
The edge of the lens behaves like a prism. Off-axis image points will exhibit a radial color smear. The blur length increases linearly with image height. Each color has a different lateral magnification. 20-11 OPTI-502Optical Designand Instrumentation I
Achromatic Objective or Doublet © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Two lens elements with different dispersive properties are combined into a single objective lens.
Red and blue light are made to focus at the same location and a greatly reduced image blur results even with large diameter lenses.
z
Blur
Crown Flint
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Achromatic Doublet © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
The thin lens achromatic doublet corrects longitudinal chromatic aberration by combining a positive thin lens and a negative thin lens. Two different glasses (1, P1 and 2, P2 ) are used. The nominal powers and focal lengths are for d light.
12 12, at d
FCFCFC12
For each lens: 1 di i 12 FCi FC ii 12 2
Achromat: FC F C 0
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Secondary Chromatic Aberration © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
The solution for the thin lens achromatic doublet result forces the same axial focus for F and C light (zero primary chromatic aberration), but d light can focus at a different location. This residual is the secondary chromatic aberration or secondary color of the doublet.
dC d C f Cd ff C d nCCnCC11 dC dC12 dC dC11 d 121 C 12
dC11112 nnCC d C
dCPP1122 FC FC nndC11 dC11112nnCC F C 12 nn dC PP12 FC11 12 nn 12 dC11 For an achromat: P1 FC11112 nnCC F C 12 nnFC11 PP 1 P 1 dC 12 dC11 FC 1 FC1 1 1 and 11 1 12 1 12 P 2 dC22 FC 2 FC 2 2 PP12 P dC 12
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Secondary Chromatic Aberration or Secondary Color © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
dC f Cd PP21 P dC d C f Cd fff2 C d f 21
dF-C
z
f = fd fCd
Focus shift from d
ff d fCd
FdC
The d focus is probably not the maximum focus shift from F and C. 20-15 OPTI-502Optical Designand Instrumentation I
Partial Dispersion Ratio and the Abbe Number © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
On a plot of P versus , most glasses lie on a straight line.
P nndC PPdC, nnF C
n 1 d nnF C
P 1 The slope of this line is approximately: 0.00045 2200
Example: BK7 = 64.17 P = .3075
F2 = 36.37 P = .2937
P .0138 1 .0005 27.80 2014
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P versus – Real Glass Data © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Data for all of the glasses in the Schott Glass Catalog:
0.3200 d,C P
0.3100
0.3000 Partial Dispersion Ratio Partial Dispersion 0.2900
0.2800 0.00 25.00 50.00 75.00 Abbe Number 20-17 OPTI-502Optical Designand Instrumentation I
Singlet versus Doublet Performance © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Singlet: fCF 1 f fffCF C F fd 30 70
f Primary chromatic f CF 50 aberration of a singlet.
fPCd Doublet: fCdff C d f
P 1 0.00045 2200
f Secondary chromatic fCd 2200 aberration of a doublet.
The use of the achromatic doublet reduces chromatic focal length variation by a factor of about 40 over the same focal length singlet.
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Excess Power © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
The doublet design places excess power in the positive element that is cancelled by the negative element.
Both elements contribute equal, but opposite, amounts of longitudinal chromatic aberration.
Just as with the achromatic thin prism, the longitudinal chromatic aberration grows slower with the low dispersion glass (positive element) than the high dispersion glass (negative element).
Large differences in the Abbe numbers minimize the excess power and provide better performance.
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Zero Secondary Color © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
In order to obtain zero secondary chromatic aberration with a doublet, the partial dispersion ratios of the two glasses must be zero.
P Pff00 Cd
There are some special glass pairs which have different Abbe numbers but the same partial dispersion ratio. Unfortunately, the difference in Abbe number is usually small, resulting in an achromatic doublet with significant excess power.
To correct chromatic aberration at additional wavelengths more than two glasses are used:
Apochromat – 3 glasses with correction at three wavelengths.
Super Apochromat – 4 or more glasses and wavelengths.
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Chromatic Aberration Correction © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
In the early 1700s, it was believed that chromatic aberration was fundamental and could not be corrected.
Even Isaac Newton mistakenly held this belief!
In the mid-1700s, the work of Chester Moor Hall and John Dollond led to the development of the achromatic objective.
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The Story of the Achromatic Doublet © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
The original inventor is Chester Moor Hall, a Barrister in London. In 1733, he commissioned two different opticians, Edward Scarlett and James Mann, to each make one of the lens elements.
By chance, both opticians subcontracted the work to the same man, George Bass. Chester Moor Hall then continued to keep his invention secret.
Chester Moor Hall 1703-1771, English
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The Story of the Achromatic Doublet © Copyright 2019 John E. Greivenkamp
Around 1750, George Bass told John Dollond about the achromatic lens he had made, or at least the fact that different glasses have different dispersing powers. Dollond then began a series of experiments using different types of glass.
Dollond’s son, Peter, saw the commercial advantages and once they had made test lenses, patented the invention in 1758.
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