Method for designing a refractive or reflective optical system and method for designing a diffraction optical element
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1. A method of designing a lens and optical system, which are required to have numerically-definable optical characteristics, by determining a set of values of optical parameters which includes curvature radius and aspheric coefficients of a surface, refractive index and dispersion of a lens material, thickness and spacing, and wedge, decenter and tilt, comprising the steps of:
- defining a non-error allotted state S0 of said lens and optical system, which is a state where all of said optical parameters have definite values without any predetermined errors;
defining a plurality of error-allotted states S1, S2, . . . , each state being a state that a predetermined error is intentionally allotted to an optical parameter which has a small tolerance in comparison with actual fabrication errors, the predetermined allotted error being larger than the tolerance and one of a decenter error, a tilting error, a wedge error, a curvature error, a refractive index error, a thickness error, a non-uniform refractive index, an aspherical coefficient error and a surface distortion;
formulating a common merit function by E=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj0)2, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pj0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter, ω
j is a weighting factor, and Σ
j means a sum of all optical parameters {pj};
formulating a plurality of said merit functions E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2, E1=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj10)2, E2=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2, E3=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj30)2 . . . for the corresponding states S0, S1, S2, S3, . . . respectively, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pjk0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter in the k-th state, ω
j is a weighting factor common for all the states, and Σ
j means a sum of all said optical parameters {pjk} pertaining to the k-th state, wherein at least one target value of the parameters {pjk} of the k-th state is different from the corresponding target value of the parameters {pj0} of the non-error allotted state;
summing up all said merit functions E0, E1, E2, . . . , Ek . . . with weighting factors wk for defining an integrated merit function E=Σ
kwkEk=w0E0+w1E1+w2E2+ . . . =Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2+Σ
j(pj−
pj10)2+Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2 . . . ;
changing a value of the integrated merit function by changing the values of the parameters {pj};
seeking a set of parameters which minimizes the integrated merit function; and
obtaining the set of parameters minimizing the integrated merit function which yields an optimum solution of the parameters of designing the lens and optical system having at least one increased tolerance for some parameter which is wider than the tolerance of the parameter which is obtained by minimizing only the non-error allotted merit function E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2.
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In the design of a lens system, lens parameters are determined by minimizing a merit function which is a sum of squares of ray aberrations or wavefront errors at many sampling points. Prior methods often select the parameters which give very narrow tolerances to production errors. The small tolerance increases the difficulty of production. In order to increase the tolerances, states which allot errors ±δ to some chosen parameters are considered. Merit functions corresponding the error-allotted states are made. An integrated merit function is produced by adding the error-allotted merit functions to the non-error allotted normal merit function. Parameters are determined by minimizing the integrated merit function. The optimized parameters will give wider tolerances for the error-allotted parameters. DOE (diffraction optical elements) design includes the steps of considering error-allotted states S1, S2, . . . in addition to a non-error state S0, making merit functions E1, E2, . . . for S1, S2, . . . besides E0 for S0, defining an integrated merit function E=ΣwkEk by multiplying the merit function with weights and summing up, minimizing the integrated merit function and determining optimum variables for the DOE.
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1. A method of designing a lens and optical system, which are required to have numerically-definable optical characteristics, by determining a set of values of optical parameters which includes curvature radius and aspheric coefficients of a surface, refractive index and dispersion of a lens material, thickness and spacing, and wedge, decenter and tilt, comprising the steps of:
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defining a non-error allotted state S0 of said lens and optical system, which is a state where all of said optical parameters have definite values without any predetermined errors;
defining a plurality of error-allotted states S1, S2, . . . , each state being a state that a predetermined error is intentionally allotted to an optical parameter which has a small tolerance in comparison with actual fabrication errors, the predetermined allotted error being larger than the tolerance and one of a decenter error, a tilting error, a wedge error, a curvature error, a refractive index error, a thickness error, a non-uniform refractive index, an aspherical coefficient error and a surface distortion;
formulating a common merit function by E=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj0)2, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pj0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter, ω
j is a weighting factor, and Σ
j means a sum of all optical parameters {pj};
formulating a plurality of said merit functions E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2, E1=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj10)2, E2=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2, E3=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj30)2 . . . for the corresponding states S0, S1, S2, S3, . . . respectively, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pjk0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter in the k-th state, ω
j is a weighting factor common for all the states, and Σ
j means a sum of all said optical parameters {pjk} pertaining to the k-th state, wherein at least one target value of the parameters {pjk} of the k-th state is different from the corresponding target value of the parameters {pj0} of the non-error allotted state;
summing up all said merit functions E0, E1, E2, . . . , Ek . . . with weighting factors wk for defining an integrated merit function E=Σ
kwkEk=w0E0+w1E1+w2E2+ . . . =Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2+Σ
j(pj−
pj10)2+Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2 . . . ;
changing a value of the integrated merit function by changing the values of the parameters {pj};
seeking a set of parameters which minimizes the integrated merit function; and
obtaining the set of parameters minimizing the integrated merit function which yields an optimum solution of the parameters of designing the lens and optical system having at least one increased tolerance for some parameter which is wider than the tolerance of the parameter which is obtained by minimizing only the non-error allotted merit function E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2.
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2. A method of designing a diffractive optical element whose surface is microstructured with an array of cells having multi-steps of heights, said element being required to have numerically-definable optical characteristics, by determining a set of values of optical parameters which includes a distribution of step heights and width of cells, side wall slant angle, refractive index and dispersion of a diffractive optical element material, thickness of a substrate, comprising the steps of:
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defining a non-error allotted state S0 of said diffractive optical element, which is a state where all said optical parameters have values without any predetermined errors;
defining a plurality of error-allotted states S1, S2, . . . , each state being a state that a predetermined error is intentionally allotted to an optical parameter which has a small tolerance in comparison with actual fabrication errors, the predetermined allotted error being larger than the tolerance and one of a step height error, a step width error, a wall slanting error, a refractive index error, a thickness error and a non-uniform refractive index;
formulating a common merit function by E=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj0)2, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pj0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter, ω
j is a weighting factor, and Σ
j means a sum of all optical parameters {pj};
formulating a plurality of said merit functions E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2, E1=Σ
jω
(pj−
pj10), E2=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2, E3Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj30)2 . . . for the corresponding states S0, S1, S2, S3, . . . respectively, where pj is a current value of the j-th optical parameter, pjk0 is a target value of the j-th optical parameter in the k-th state, ω
j is a weighting factor common for all the states, and Σ
j means a sum of all said optical parameters {pjk} pertaining to the k-th state, wherein at least one target value of the parameters {pjk} of the k-th state is different from the corresponding target value of the parameters {pj0} of the non-error allotted state;
summing up all said merit functions E0, E1, E2, . . . , Ek . . . with weighting factors wk for defining an integrated merit function E=Σ
kwkEk=w0E0+w1E1+w2E2+ . . . =Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2+Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj10)2+Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj20)2 . . . ;
changing a value of the integrated merit function by changing the values of the parameters {pj};
seeking a set of parameters which minimizes the integrated merit function; and
obtaining the set of parameters mimimizing the integrated merit function which yields an optimum solution of the parameters of designing the diffractive optical element having at least one increased tolerance for some parameter which is wider than the tolerance of the parameter which is obtained by minimizing only the non-error allotted merit function E0=Σ
jω
j(pj−
pj00)2.- View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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Current AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
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Original AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
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InventorsFuse, Keiji
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Primary Examiner(s)CHANG, AUDREY Y
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Application NumberUS09/259,587Publication NumberTime in Patent Office1,541 DaysField of Search359/558, 359/565, 359/566, 359/569, 359/573, 359/900, 700/36US Class Current359/563CPC Class CodesG02B 13/14 for use with infrared or ul...G02B 13/18 with lenses having one or m...G02B 27/0012 Optical design, e.g. proced...G02B 5/1847 Manufacturing methods
