Open AccessUsing geometric algebra to study optical aberrations
Author(s) -
Jack Hanlon,
Hans-Joachim Ziock
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/468621
Subject(s) - plane (geometry) , gaussian , square (algebra) , image plane , geometrical optics , mathematics , image (mathematics) , physics , optics , algebra over a field , computer science , geometry , pure mathematics , computer vision , quantum mechanics
This paper uses Geometric Algebra (GA) to study vector aberrations in optical systems with square and round pupils. GA is a new way to produce the classical optical aberration spot diagrams on the Gaussian image plane and surfaces near the Gaussian image plane. Spot diagrams of the third, fifth and seventh order aberrations for square and round pupils are developed to illustrate the theory
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