Telephoto Prime Lens Design: A Patent Study

This fourth patent study in devoted exclusively to one patent, both because of the detailed review I wanted to do, and because it is such a good patent with good embodiments.

Some topics covered in this video that I haven't touched on before include stray light analysis, wave front error, and depth of field.

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It was a race against time to finish the simulations with my OpticStudio license set to expire, and expire it did before I was completely finished. But that proved to be only a minor concern as I got pretty much everything I needed. I just didn't get to finish optimizing.

OpticStudio is a product of Zemax (www.zemax.com).

References:
1. The patent in this study is US patent number 3,942,876 "Telephoto Lens". The inventor is a luminary in the field, which explains the quality of the invention.
2. Pedrotti, Pedrotti, and Pedrotti, Intro to Optics, 3rd ed. p. 73.
3. Greivenkamp, Field Guide to Geometrical Optics, p. 35.
4. Keith J. Kasunic, Optical Systems Engineering, (McGraw-Hill, 2011), p. 118.

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