Dialyte-refractor design for self-correcting lateral color

Rick Dale Blakley

doi:10.1117/1.1533039

1 February 2003 Dialyte-refractor design for self-correcting lateral color

Rick Dale Blakley

Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 2, (February 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1533039

Unlike traditional refracting telescopes, dialyte and Schupmann-medial refractors manage the correction of chromatic aberration through the use of correcting elements well spaced from their companion, single-element objectives. Dialyte designs leave a large contribution to lateral color, and Schupmann-medial types require the tilting of the mangin corrector to make the focus available, which restricts the field unless at least one toroidal curvature is included. A new dialyte design that combines attributes of both systems results in an all-refractive telescope that offers correction for lateral color and an accessible field unrestricted by tilt-induced astigmatism. The design can also be adapted to correct the secondary spectrum of a traditional achromat.

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Rick Dale Blakley "Dialyte-refractor design for self-correcting lateral color," Optical Engineering 42(2), (1 February 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1533039

Published: 1 February 2003

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