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OPTICA
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 161-176Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.413762
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- Center for Freeform Optics
- National Science Foundation [IIP-1338877, IIP-1338898, IIP-1822026, IIP-1822049]
- II-VI Foundation (Block Gift Program)
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This article discusses the development history, definition, concurrent engineering, and manufacturing methods of freeform optics, focusing on aberration theory and emerging design methods. It also emphasizes the measurement techniques for freeform optics and looks forward to the future of this technology.
In the last 10 years, freeform optics has enabled compact and high-performance imaging systems. This article begins with a brief history of freeform optics, focusing on imaging systems, including marketplace emergence. The development of this technology is motivated by the clear opportunity to enable science across a wide range of applications, spanning from extreme ultraviolet lithography to space optics. Next, we define freeform optics and discuss concurrent engineering that brings together design, fabrication, testing, and assembly into one process. We then lay out the foundations of the aberration theory for freeform optics and emerging design methodologies. We describe fabrication methods, emphasizing deterministic computer numerical control grinding, polishing, and diamond machining. Next, we consider mid-spatial frequency errors that inherently result from freeform fabrication techniques. We realize that metrologies of freeform optics are simultaneously sparse in their existence but diverse in their potential. Thus, we focus on metrology techniques demonstrated for the measurement of freeform optics. We conclude this review with an outlook on the future of freeform optics. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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