COMO - A Program For Optical Design

Wolfgang Vollrath

doi:10.1117/12.938402

31 October 1986 COMO - A Program For Optical Design

Wolfgang Vollrath

Proceedings Volume 0655, Optical System Design, Analysis, Production for Advanced Technology Systems; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.938402
Event: 1986 International Symposium/Innsbruck, 1986, Innsbruck, Austria

Abstract

COMO is an optical design program of a special orthogonalization type, developed by Prof. H.Marx at Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Company. Not using a merit function, COMO corrects aberrations under equality and inequality constraints not simultaneously but sequentially, the order is chosen by the optical designer. The optimization procedure shows distinctive features compared to other programs. COMO is in use at Leitz since the early 1970's and is now running on HP-1000F and HP-A900 computer systems. In 1974, when it was implemented on a HP-2100, it was probably one of the very first "mainfrawe" optical design programs running on a minicomputer. H.Marx named this program COMO.

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Wolfgang Vollrath "COMO - A Program For Optical Design", Proc. SPIE 0655, Optical System Design, Analysis, Production for Advanced Technology Systems, (31 October 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.938402

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