Systematic Approach to the Teaching of Lens Theory

Adriaan Walther

doi:10.1117/12.946750

1 September 1968 Systematic Approach to the Teaching of Lens Theory

Adriaan Walther

Proceedings Volume 0013, Modulation Transfer Function; (1968) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946750
Event: Modulation Transfer Function, 1968, Boston, United States

Abstract

A general description of optical instruments is presented, which can be used to treat geometrical optics, Fourier optics, and the wave theory in a unified manner. It is shown that a joint treatment of these various branches of optics clarifies many results that quite often remain intuitively obscure to the student; e.g., the Legendre transformations in eikonal theory attain an immediate significance in the context of the wave theory. Students of a course along these lines must have a moderate knowledge of Fourier integrals. In the final section it is shown that diffraction theory can be described in terms of a "sum over all rays" concept.

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Adriaan Walther "Systematic Approach to the Teaching of Lens Theory", Proc. SPIE 0013, Modulation Transfer Function, (1 September 1968); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946750

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