Miniaturization of zoom lenses with a single moving element.
We present an analysis of single-moving-element zoom lenses in the thin-lens limit and show how the length of these zoom lenses is determined by the zoom-factor, sensor-dimension and the depth-of-focus. By decreasing the sensor size and extending the depth-of-focus, the lengths of these zoom lenses can be reduced significantly. As an example we present a ray-traced design of a miniaturized single-moving-element zoom lens with a 2.3 x zoom-factor and show how the exploitation of modern miniaturized detector array combined with wavefront coding enables a reduction in length of almost three orders-of-magnitude to 10mm.
Demenikov
Mads
M
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK.
Findlay
Ewan
E
Harvey
Andrew R
AR
D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007909:Lenses; D008904:Miniaturization; D009038:Motion; D010781:Photography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity