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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 21, Pages 18906-18919Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018906
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog a de Mexico (CONACyT) [78812, 170266]
- Burroughs Welcome Fund
- National Institute for Health, Bethesda, Maryland [NIH EY014375, NIH EY01319]
- Bausch and Lomb, Research to Prevent Blindness
- National Science Foundation [AST9876783]
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Expressions for minimal astigmatism in image and pupil planes in off-axis afocal reflective telescopes formed by pairs of spherical mirrors are presented. These formulae which are derived from the marginal ray fan equation can be used for designing laser cavities, spectrographs and adaptive optics retinal imaging systems. The use, range and validity of these formulae are limited by spherical aberration and coma for small and large angles respectively. This is discussed using examples from adaptive optics retinal imaging systems. The performance of the resulting optical designs are evaluated and compared against the configurations with minimal wavefront RMS, using the defocus-corrected wavefront RMS as a metric. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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