Theory of two-component zoom systems

摘要

Two-component zoom systems are a basic part of all zoom systems. The first zoom systems appeared at the end of the 19th century in Germany. Dunouer has shown the possibility of creating two-component zoom converters with a definite magnification range and the appropriate correlation between the optical powers of the components. After Dunouer several types of the two-component zoom objective lenses have been designed. Typically, they had small magnification range (less than 2$MUL@) and were more complex than was necessary. In the 1970s designers began to pay more attention to the creation of two-component zoom projection systems. Most recently, special telecinema zoom projection systems have been created. An optical telecinema system consists of a zoom projection system and a prism splitter to split the beam into three color channels. Its purpose is to project 8, 16, and 35 mm movies in a television. Such a zoom system is supposed to have telecentric chief rays in image space and a long distance from the last surface to the image. The creation of new zoom systems has to be founded on the general theory of first- and third-order design to find the optimum parameters of the system.