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8 November 2013 Special Section Guest Editorial: Gradient Index Optics
Predrag Milojkovic, Stefanie Tompkins, Ravindra A. Athale
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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 11, 112101 (November 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.11.112101
Abstract
In the past century, every component of an optical system has become lighter and smaller, except the lenses. Typical lenses have too few degrees of freedom—just the refractive index, and the front and back surface shapes—to meet the demands of the vast array of modern optical systems which collect, project, or otherwise manipulate light. (Even in imaging systems, where computational power has the potential to eliminate the tight coupling between lenses and performance, more capable lenses would increase the trade space that optical designers have available to them).
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Predrag Milojkovic, Stefanie Tompkins, and Ravindra A. Athale "Special Section Guest Editorial: Gradient Index Optics," Optical Engineering 52(11), 112101 (8 November 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.11.112101
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Lenses
GRIN lenses
Gradient-index optics
Refractive index
Imaging systems
Optical design
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