Hello,
I would like to build a demo of Kohler illumination with paraxial lenses for teaching but I'm not sure how to go about it. I would like to assemble the Kohler illumation path with the field and aperture diaphragms and use this to illuminate and image a 'sample'. I would like an Image Simulation pane that demonstrates changes in depth of field and area illuminated when I tweak the field and aperture diaphragms. It is this last part in particular that I have no clue to how to achieve.
I have assemble the illumination side on its own in sequantial mode. I can use this to demonstrate that the source is out of focus in the image plane, and that tweaking the field diaphragm alters the size of the footprint. I am not sure which statistic to use for measuring the NA of the illumination incident at the sample. It's not image space NA.
Thanks