Review of optical freeform surface representation technique and its application

Jingfei Ye; Lu Chen; Xinhua Li; Qun Yuan; Zhishan Gao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.56.11.110901

11 November 2017 Review of optical freeform surface representation technique and its application

Jingfei Ye, Lu Chen, Xinhua Li, Qun Yuan, Zhishan Gao

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Funded by: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of China

Optical Engineering, Vol. 56, Issue 11, 110901 (November 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.11.110901

Abstract

Modern advanced manufacturing and testing technologies allow the application of freeform optical elements. Compared with traditional spherical surfaces, an optical freeform surface has more degrees of freedom in optical design and provides substantially improved imaging performance. In freeform optics, the representation technique of a freeform surface has been a fundamental and key research topic in recent years. Moreover, it has a close relationship with other aspects of the design, manufacturing, testing, and application of optical freeform surfaces. Improvements in freeform surface representation techniques will make a significant contribution to the further development of freeform optics. We present a detailed review of the different types of optical freeform surface representation techniques and their applications and discuss their properties and differences. Additionally, we analyze the future trends of optical freeform surface representation techniques.

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Jingfei Ye, Lu Chen, Xinhua Li, Qun Yuan, and Zhishan Gao "Review of optical freeform surface representation technique and its application," Optical Engineering 56(11), 110901 (11 November 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.11.110901

Received: 11 July 2017; Accepted: 26 October 2017; Published: 11 November 2017

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