Freeform Optical Surfaces
Slow-servo diamond turning has revolutionized what is possible in optical fabrication. As a result, optical design provides new horizons where freeform surfaces may offer new degrees of freedom. In this talk I will provide a brief history of the emergence of freeform optics and point to a growing customer base. I will then discuss recent advances in surface shape descriptions for freeform optics from phi-polynomials to multi-centric radial basis functions. Finally, we will show how freeform surfaces may provide in one case study a factor of 10 in field area. Insight into the correction of aberrations will be provided and two metrology approaches to testing freeform surfaces will be discussed.
Jannick Rolland, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson (chair) Professor of Optical Engineering at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. She is the director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering as well as the director of the planned NSF Center for Freeform Optics. She directs the ODALab (www.odalab-spectrum.org) and holds appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and in the Center for Visual Science. She earned an Optical Engineering Diploma from the Institut D'Optique Théorique et Appliquée, France, and an MS and PhD in Optical Science from the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Professor Rolland is a NYSTAR Fellow, a Fellow of OSA and SPIE, and a senior member of IEEE. Professor Rolland is serving on the Meetings Council of the OSA and is a Director at Large on the OSA Board of Directors.
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Rebeccas Cafe (Located in back of the office complex)
275 Grove Street
Auburndale, MA 02466
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Networking—5:45 PM, Dinner—6:45, Meeting—7:30 PM.
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| Students | $5.00 | $5.00 |
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