Graded-index lens

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1990-09-20

1992-04-28

Sugarman, Scott J.

Optical: systems and elements

Lens

With graded refractive index

385124, G02B 300, G02B 618

Patent

active

051092980

ABSTRACT:
A graded-index lens for focusing an erect unmagnified image out of the lens has a refractive index varying radially in a cross-sectional plane normal to the optical axis thereof. The graded-index lens comprises a cylindrical medium whose refractive index at a radial distance r from an optical axis within a cross-sectional plane normal to the optical axis, is expressed by:

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patent: 4634233 (1987-01-01), Usami et al.
patent: 4668053 (1987-05-01), Nishi et al.
patent: 4744620 (1988-05-01), Ueno et al.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, Nov. 1970, vol. 60, No. 11, pp. 1436-1443, "Third-Order Aberrations of Inhomogeneous Lenses".

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