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  1. Lens -design programs serve both novice and expert

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    Wed, 1 Sep 1999

    early settles on a lower-quality lens design . Although the lens designers of ..... novice designer requires, current lens - design software allows the user to describe ..... important and time-saving addition to lens - design programs has been the optimization

  2. Lens design and illumination software team up

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    Tue, 1 Jun 1999

    software is first optimized using a lens - design program. Intermediate image plane ..... maximum performance. Traditional lens - design software has long been used to ..... electronic imaging devices. Although lens - design software varies in price, ease

  1. 60 years ago, pioneer NIST computer was capable of lens design

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    Thu, 24 Jun 2010

    programmable computer in U.S. history, the Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC). Its duties included lens design , optical image processing , and digital image scanning, as well as many non-photonics-related functions. Acoustic

  2. Navitar expands lens design & prototyping capabilities with Special Optics acquisition

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    Fri, 8 Feb 2008

    February 8, 2008, Rochester, NY --Navitar, a manufacturer and distributor of precision optics and opto-mechanical assemblies for the machine vision and digital projection industries, acquired Special Optics (Wharton, NJ), a privately owned manufacturer of optical assemblies for long-range ...

  3. Optical design software from Radiant Zemax offers reverse ray tracing

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    Mon, 9 Apr 2012

    is available in SE, EE, and IE editions, with new lens design capabilities. IE includes all the capabilities found ..... EE and IE editions, all of which include many new lens design capabilities. New advances in the IE edition are of keen interest

  4. IMAGING: Diamond turning extends Cassegrain design to portable cameras

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    Thu, 1 Mar 2007

    In lens design , it helps to set aside preconceived ideas ..... system design, but not just with a lens - design program,” Ford said. “You can use ..... plane. What we do is incorporate the lens design and the post-detection processing

  5. Custom optics find favor with IR-system designers

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    Thu, 1 Jun 2000

    as advances in computer-aided lens design and manufacturing techniques have ..... key strokes, however, the IR lens design was reoptimized for the single ..... and design software With modern lens - design software and current computer speed

  6. MOLDED OPTICS: Molded glass aspheric optics hit the target for precision and cost

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    Sat, 1 Dec 2007

    the designer must ensure the lens design uses the molded glass refractive ..... in the glass libraries of most lens design software packages such as ZEMAX ..... introduced a manufacturing problem. The lens design would need to be f/2.5 and

  7. Vendors discuss applications

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    Thu, 1 Jan 1998

    a role in laser design than in lens design , according to James Kafka, advanced ..... whether they`d like to use a lens - design tool to trace a Gaussian beam or ..... Fairport, NY) discussed traditional lens - design tools that have become popular

  8. Global optimization leads to better designs

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    Sun, 1 Jun 1997

    algorithms have been available in lens - design programs for some time, many ..... five years ago, virtually all lens - design programs performed only local ..... novel solutions to a wide range of lens - design problems. Proof of this is found