A paper entitled "LENS DESIGN PROBLEM SUMMARY: The Solid Glass Lens" will be published in SPIE Proceedings Volume 3482 due out in September/October 1998. This paper summarizes the design solutions submitted, highlights the best designs and considers some interesting points brought to light as a result of the endeavor. Since some of the optical prescriptions submitted as solutions were quite long, this web page is being provided as a companion piece to the paper published in SPIE Proceedings Volume 3482. This web page is not meant as a replacement for the information contained in the paper. This page will be maintained by Optical Data Solutions, Inc. until at least July 1, 1999.
Once again, many thanks to all the design problem entrants and optical software code vendors for their particpation in making the execution of the IODC design problem a successful one.
Sincerely,
Leo Gardner
Vice President, Optical Data Solutions, Inc.
General Chair, IODC '98
Format: This column lists the format of the prescription file. This listing is necessary so readers of this page know how to translate the optical prescription file. It does not necessarily indicate that the design was optimized in that code.
MF Value: This column contains the estimate of the Merit Function. The numbers presented here were calculated by using a large number of rays in a rectangular sampling grid centered about the chief ray. It is acknowledged that centering the sampling grid about the centroid of the spot may have been a more appropriate choice and would have yielded slightly different performance numbers, but subsequent evaluation indicated that centroiding didn’t appear to change the relative ranking of designs.
Designer's Comments: Most of the entrants were surveyed via electronic mail and asked to respond to a few short questions regarding their design problem submissions. Some their responses are contained here. Editing is minimal.
| Files | Format | MF
Value |
General
Comments |
Designer's
Comments |
| D29.seq | CodeV | 0.9 | CommD29.txt | |
| D18.seq | CodeV | 1.0 | CommD18.txt | |
| D03.len | OSLO | 1.3 | CommD03.txt | |
| D11.zmx | ZEMAX | 1.4 | CommD11.txt | |
| D05.len | OSLO | 3.0 | CommD05.txt | |
| D26.zmx
sumita.agf |
ZEMAX | 4.9 | Extra file needed in Zemax
for Sumita Corp glasses |
CommD26.txt |
| D30.seq | CodeV | 5.1 | CommD30.txt | |
| D27.zmx
sumita.agf |
ZEMAX | 5.6 | Extra file needed in Zemax
for Sumita Corp glasses |
|
| D12.seq | CodeV | 6.0 | CommD12.txt | |
| D28.zmx | ZEMAX | 7.4 | ||
| D09.zmx
oldglas1.agf |
ZEMAX | 8.5 | Extra file needed in
Zemax for older glasses |
CommD09.txt |
| D23.len | OSLO | 10.7 | CommD23.txt | |
| D13.zmx | ZEMAX | 15.5 | CommD13.txt | |
| D17.zmx | ZEMAX | 15.5 | CommD17.txt | |
| D40.zmx | ZEMAX | 17.1 | ||
| D33.seq | CodeV | 19.8 | ||
| D21.len | OSLO | 24.9 | CommD21.txt | |
| D41.rle | SYNOPSYS | 25.9 | CommD41.txt | |
| D16.seq | CodeV | 27.7 | CommD16.txt | |
| D36.lns | SIGMA | 29.3 | CommD36.txt | |
| D35.len | OSLO | 30.7 | CommD35.txt | |
| D31.seq | CodeV | 35.0 | CommD31.txt | |
| D32.seq | CodeV | 35.3 | ||
| D07.seq | CodeV | 44.8 | CommD07.txt | |
| D37.zmx | ZEMAX | 55.0 | CommD37.txt | |
| D22.rle | SYNOPSYS | 56.0 | ||
| D02.zmx | ZEMAX | 57.2 | CommD02.txt | |
| D24.zmx | ZEMAX | 70.3 | CommD24.txt | |
| D20.zmx | ZEMAX | 80.2 | ||
| D15.zmx | ZEMAX | 87.2 | CommD15.txt | |
| D34.seq | CodeV | 97.1 | CommD34.txt | |
| D08.zmx | ZEMAX | 97.2 | ||
| D38.zmx | ZEMAX | 138 | CommD38.txt | |
| D14.zmx | ZEMAX | 139 | ||
| D01.zmx | ZEMAX | 160 | Fails mass (penalty not incl. in MF) | CommD01.txt |
| D06.zmx | ZEMAX | 216 | CommD06.txt | |
| D25.zmx | ZEMAX | 350 | 3 element solution | CommD25.txt |
Last Modified: October 20, 2006