Alejandro Madrid-Sánchez, José Ortiz-Ocampo, Carlos Trujillo, Heidi Ottevaere
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Abstract
Commercial off-the-shelf optics enable economic and rapid solutions in the photonics industry and academia. However, the design of optical systems with off-the-shelf optics is a time-consuming task for experienced optical designers and hopeless for novice designers. In this paper, we propose an automatic optical design tool to generate optical systems using only off-the-shelf optical components without human assistance. Our solution is based on an evolution strategy (ES) that performs a discrete combinatorial optimization following optical design-based methodologies that satisfy user-defined specifications. Unlike the conventional methods, the algorithm decreases the design process time and provides optical designers with several optical solutions from where to choose and adapt for targeted applications. In this work, the ES is described and tested with front stop optical configurations. We demonstrate the broad solution domain of the algorithm through the generation of optical systems with F-numbers within a range F/1 to F/90 and field of views up to 300 mm at the image plane. To analyze the solution domain and the characteristics of the solution, we used the design specifications of 29 commercially available scan lenses and compared the performance of different ES parameters. The compatibility of our algorithm with (standard) commercially available optical design software unlocks automatic design tools for off-the-shelf optical systems.
现成的商用光学器件为光子学行业和学术界提供了经济、快速的解决方案。然而,使用现成光学元件设计光学系统对于经验丰富的光学设计人员来说是一项耗时的任务,而对于设计新手来说则毫无希望。在本文中,我们提出了一种自动光学设计工具,只需使用现成的光学元件即可生成光学系统,无需人工辅助。我们的解决方案以进化策略(ES)为基础,按照基于光学设计的方法进行离散组合优化,以满足用户定义的规格要求。与传统方法不同的是,该算法缩短了设计过程的时间,并为光学设计人员提供了多种光学解决方案,供其选择并适应目标应用。在这项工作中,对 ES 进行了描述,并用前挡光学配置进行了测试。我们通过生成 F/1 至 F/90 范围内的 F 数和在像面上最大 300 mm 的视场的光学系统,展示了该算法广泛的解决方案域。为了分析求解域和求解特征,我们使用了 29 个市售扫描镜头的设计规格,并比较了不同 ES 参数的性能。我们的算法与(标准)市售光学设计软件兼容,为现成的光学系统提供了自动设计工具。