By Virendra N. Mahajan
Optical imaging starts off with geometrical optics, and ray tracing lies at its vanguard. This e-book starts off with Fermat's precept and derives the 3 legislation of geometrical optics from it. After discussing imaging by way of refracting and reflecting platforms, paraxial ray tracing is used to figure out the dimensions of imaging parts and obscuration in replicate platforms. Stops, students, radiometry, and optical tools also are mentioned. The chromatic and monochromatic aberrations are addressed intimately, via spot sizes and notice diagrams of aberrated photos of aspect items. every one bankruptcy ends with a precis and a suite of difficulties. The publication ends with an epilogue that summarizes the imaging technique and descriptions the following steps inside of and past geometrical optics
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1-27), we obtain eˆ¢ = - eˆ + 2vˆ cos q . (1-29) Because eˆ and eˆ¢ are unit vectors and, therefore, have the same length, they intersect eˆ + eˆ¢ and, therefore, vˆ at the same angle. Thus we obtain the law of reflection that the reflected ray makes the same angle with the surface normal at the point of incidence as the incident ray and lies in the plane of incidence. , Eqs. (1-22) and (1-29). 6 EXACT RAY TRACING Exact ray tracing is used to determine the wave and ray aberrations, and thereby the spot sizes and diagrams, and the aberrated diffraction images.
Substituting for b from Eq. (1-21) into Eq. (1-20), we obtain n ¢eˆ¢ = neˆ + ( n ¢ cos q¢ - n cos q) vˆ . (1-22) Similarly, taking a vector product with vˆ , we obtain neˆ ¥ vˆ - n ¢eˆ¢ ¥ vˆ = 0 , or n ¢ sin q¢ = n sin q . (1-23) Equation (1-23) and coplanarity of the incident and refracted rays and the surface normal is the law of refraction, or Snell’s law in 3D. Thus, a ray incident at an angle q is refracted at an angle q¢ such that the refracted ray lies in the plane of incidence. Substituting for cos q¢ from Eq.
1-37). Equations (1-43), along with Eq. (1-37), describe the reflection operation of the ray at point A1 . These equations can be obtained from the corresponding Eqs. (1-36) for a refraction operation by letting n 0 = 1 = -n1 . A2 ∧ e1 (–)θ 0 x A0 ∧ e0 θ0 R1 V1 y A1 (x1, y1, z1) z1 ∧ 1 C1 z Figure 1-12. Reflection of a ray A0 A1 by a reflecting spherical surface of radius of curvature R1 at the point of incidence A1 , where q 0 is the angle of incidence of the ray, z1 is the sag of the surface, and vˆ1 is a unit vector along the surface normal at the point of incidence toward the center of curvature C .
