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Third-order aberrations in GRIN crystalline lens: a new method based on axial and field rays
Arturo Díaz Del Río1, Carlos Gómez-Reino1, M Teresa Flores-Arias1
1Grupo de Microoptica y Óptica GRIN, Departamento de Física Aplicada (área de Óptica), Facultade de Óptica e Optometría (Campus Vida), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Abstract:
This paper presents a new procedure for calculating the third-order aberration of gradient-index (GRIN) lenses that combines an iterative numerical method with the Hamiltonian theory of aberrations in terms of two paraxial rays with boundary conditions on general curved end surfaces and, as a second algebraic step has been presented. Application of this new method to a GRIN human is analyzed in the framework of the bi-elliptical model. The different third-order aberrations are determined, except those that need for their calculation skew rays, because the study is made only for meridional rays.
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