Saddle points in the merit function landscape of systems of thin lenses in contact

Florian Bociort; Alexander Serebriakov; Maarten van Turnhout

doi:10.1117/12.559638

14 October 2004 Saddle points in the merit function landscape of systems of thin lenses in contact

Florian Bociort, Alexander Serebriakov, Maarten van Turnhout

Proceedings Volume 5523, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering V; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559638
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

The merit function landscape of systems of thin lenses in contact, which are perhaps the simplest possible types of optical systems, shows remarkable regularities. It is easier to understand how the optimization parameter space of these simple systems is divided into basins of attraction for the various local minima if one focuses on the (Morse index 1) saddle points in the landscape rather than on the local minima themselves. The existence and the basic properties of these saddle points can be predicted by thin-lens theory, which is applied on a simplified model of the merit function containing only third-order spherical aberration. The predictions of this simplified model are confirmed by numerical results obtained with a typical merit function based on ray tracing.

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Florian Bociort, Alexander Serebriakov, and Maarten van Turnhout "Saddle points in the merit function landscape of systems of thin lenses in contact", Proc. SPIE 5523, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering V, (14 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559638

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