Estimating Optical System Performance From A Statistical Description Of Its Probable Manufacturing Errors

D. S. Nicholson

doi:10.1117/12.954239

1 March 1974 Estimating Optical System Performance From A Statistical Description Of Its Probable Manufacturing Errors

D. S. Nicholson

Proceedings Volume 0054, Effective Systems Integration and Optical Design I; (1974) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954239
Event: Acquisition and Analysis of Pictorial Data, 1974, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Once the requirements for a diffraction-limited imaging optical system have been established, the aperture needed to permit sufficient energy to reach the image and the focal length required to meet the specified resolution can be determined. As anyone who has spent even a little time with the problems of optical design knows, this upper bound can be achieved in only the rarest of circumstances. The real system must be manufactured to a practical set of fabrication tolerances. The design, therefore, must be sufficiently better than the requirements so the realities of execution will permit a system to be fabricated and assembled to yield satisfactory performance. This paper describes a procedure whereby the designer can not only predict the average performance of a proposed system, but can also establish some bounds on its expected performance.

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D. S. Nicholson "Estimating Optical System Performance From A Statistical Description Of Its Probable Manufacturing Errors", Proc. SPIE 0054, Effective Systems Integration and Optical Design I, (1 March 1974); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.954239

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