Objective lens for endoscope
First Claim
1. An endoscope objective lens comprising, successively from an object side, a first lens group having at least one lens with a negative refracting power, a stop, and a second lens group having a positive refracting power, said first lens group including at least one lens having a diffraction optical surface, said diffraction optical surface satisfying the following conditional expression (1):
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Abstract
An endoscope objective lens comprises, successively from the object side, a first lens group G1 constituted by a first lens L1 made of a planoconcave lens having a concave surface directed onto the image side and a second lens L2 made of a convex meniscus lens having a convex surface directed onto the object side, a stop 1, and a second lens group G2 having a positive refracting power, wherein the image-side surface of the first lens L1 is formed as a diffraction optical surface. This endoscope objective lens further satisfies the following conditional expressions:
where E is the coefficient of the second-order term of the phase difference function of the diffraction optical surface; fN is the focal length of the lens having the diffraction optical surface and the strongest negative refracting power in the first lens group; and f is the focal length of the whole lens system. This endoscope objective lens favorably corrects chromatic aberration in magnification in particular, and reduces adverse effects of unnecessary diffracted light, flare light occurring due to errors in manufacture or the like, and so forth, thus being applicable to the achievement of a higher resolution.
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- 1. An endoscope objective lens comprising, successively from an object side, a first lens group having at least one lens with a negative refracting power, a stop, and a second lens group having a positive refracting power, said first lens group including at least one lens having a diffraction optical surface, said diffraction optical surface satisfying the following conditional expression (1):
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4. An endoscope objective lens comprising, successively from an object side, a first lens group having at least one lens with a negative refracting power, a stop, and a second lens group having a positive refracting power, said first lens group including at least one lens with a positive refracting power having a diffraction optical surface, a lens having the strongest positive refracting power as the lens having said diffraction optical surface in said first lens group satisfying the following conditional expressions (4) and (4):
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