Compact system description for systems comprising a tilted plane parallel plate.
A paraxial model describing the astigmatism generated by a plane-parallel plate is derived. This model fits the framework of the 4x4 matrix formalism that Arsenault used to describe cylindrical lenses. The framework including this new model is used to build a compact system description of a plane-parallel plate combined with a cylindrical lens, from which several imaging properties are derived. Calculation results are compared with ray-trace simulation results and measurements. Both the ray-trace and the experimental results are in excellent agreement with the calculated results.
van den Eerenbeemd
Jack
J
Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. jack.van.den.eerenbeemd@philips.com
Stallinga
Sjoerd
S