title: Design and fabrication of a dual-element off-axis near-eye optical magnifier.
abstract: The key contribution is the design, analysis, and fabrication of a dual-element off-axis magnifier to improve the state of the art in catadioptric magnifiers. The catadioptric magnifier is composed of a free-form mirror and a lens with a diffractive optical element. A monocular magnifier was prototyped, to our knowledge for the first time, with the specifications of an 8 mm exit pupil, 20 degrees diagonal full field of view, 15 mm eye clearance, 1.5 arcmin resolution, and operating in the photopic visual regime.
authors.affiliation: CREOL, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA. ozan.cakmakci@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ozan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Cakmakci
authors.forename: Jannick
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rolland