DESIGN OF LENSES WITH CORRECTED DISTORTION

Abstract

To accomplish automated design of optical systems with reduced distortion, one of modern global optimization algorithms has been proposed, namely the adaptive Cauchy differential evolution. By using special software, an experimental verification has been carried out to test performance of this approach. It was done on examples of lenses, similar to those that had already been patented. The time interval, required to design an optical system with a total number of unknown variables from 20 to 30, does not exceed a few hours. The results of this research indicate that the above-mentioned algorithm is an effective tool, enabling to perform automated parametric synthesis and determine prescription data of an optical system with corrected distortion and high image quality.