An optical system acts between two finite conjugates. How can I condition the optimisation in order to achieve a low spot RMS but simultaneously maximise its (paraxial) magnification?
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Optimise optical system and its magnification
Best answer by David.Nguyen
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For a low spot RMS, I’d use a Default Merit Function with the Wizard. This is described in this article:
And for the magnification, you could use the PMAG operand, or you can also use different REAY operands to take the ratio (with the DIVI operand) of different real chief ray (for different fields) heights. I’ve set this up in an example for another person in this post:
But, there’s one tip I can give you regarding maximizing an operand. While one migth be tempted to set the target of said operand to an absurdly large value, hoping the optimization will settle with whatever is achievable considering the other criterions, It usually works better for me to use the reciprocal (with the RECI operand) and target this one to zero if that makes sense. It might be usefull to play with the weight of the operand depending on what you can allow the spot size to be. Let me know if that’s not clear.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
David
+2Hi
For a low spot RMS, I’d use a Default Merit Function with the Wizard. This is described in this article:
And for the magnification, you could use the PMAG operand, or you can also use different REAY operands to take the ratio (with the DIVI operand) of different real chief ray (for different fields) heights. I’ve set this up in an example for another person in this post:
But, there’s one tip I can give you regarding maximizing an operand. While one migth be tempted to set the target of said operand to an absurdly large value, hoping the optimization will settle with whatever is achievable considering the other criterions, It usually works better for me to use the reciprocal (with the RECI operand) and target this one to zero if that makes sense. It might be usefull to play with the weight of the operand depending on what you can allow the spot size to be. Let me know if that’s not clear.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
David
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+1The other thought is that large magnification and small spot size are “conjugate” variables of the design. You could also place a variable on the EPD using the APER operand in the MCE. Growing the aperture with the magnification could preserve the spot size. It will gradually increase the aberration however. Be careful with this method, as the default merit function for spot size will try to minimize transverse ray aberrations by reducing the aperture and so another method of calculating the spot size may be needed and those are sometimes computationally costly (slows down the merit function).
A lens is about as nonlinear as anything in physics. -Rudolf Kinglsake
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+2Thanks for the detailed answer
Take care,
David
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