Analytical Study of Optical Wavefront Aberrations Using Maple

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1997-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9710180v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in MapleTech vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 52-62. 11 pages, 5 figures. PDF may also be accessed at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AESO

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This paper describes a package for analytical ray tracing of relatively simple optical systems. AESOP (An Extensible Symbolic Optics Package) enables analysis of the effects of small optical element misalignments or other perturbations. (It is possible to include two or more simultaneous independent perturbations.) Wavefront aberrations and optical path variations can be studied as functions of the perturbation parameters. The power of this approach lies in the fact that the results can be manipulated algebraically, allowing determination of misalignment tolerances as well as developing physical intuition, especially in the picometer regime of optical path length variations.

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