Design a Lens in a Few Minutes with LensKit.App
This video will show you how to design a new laser lens in just a few minutes.
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LLS #6: Evaluating Lens Design
When designing a lens or choosing a lens, it's important to know if the lens is good enough for your application. Having a suite of analysis types is an important part of this process. In this post we will cover five analysis types that can be used to
LLS #5: Aspheric Lenses
In LLS #4: Designing Laser Lenses we found that lenses using only spherical surfaces have some amount of spherical aberration. The magnitude of the spherical aberration can be quite small or quite large depending on focal length, laser beam diameter, lens shape, and index of refraction of the lens material.
LLS #4: Designing Laser Lenses
Designing lenses for a laser application is simplified by the fact that the lens must work at only one wavelength – the wavelength of the laser. This is true for most laser applications, but there are some exceptions which might be discussed in later posts. Lensmaker's Equation The basic
LLS #3: Basic Lens Types
For most laser systems there are mainly 6 types of lenses that are commonly used to change that shape of a laser beam. These can be broken down into two groups: positive focal length lenses and negative focal length lenses. Positive Focal Length Lens Types In most laser applications we