Interface Examples

The following examples are excellent step-by-step instructions to introduce you to OSLO's interface and walk you through the steps necessary to learn how to use OSLO.

• First OSLO Session Example.
• Schmidt Camera Example.
• Anamorph shows the use of cylindrical lenses, special apertures, and the pickup-length-minus (pkp lnm) command that holds the image in a fixed location, despite the motion of intermediate lenses.
• Anaprism shows the use of tilted and decentered surfaces, prisms, and the 3-dimensional drawing routines that allow OSLO to draw a pictures of any solid objects that can be specified as a series of vertices and faces.
• Cherry contains a beam splitter, catadioptric mirror, and pickup constraints needed to specify a double-pass optical system where a beam passes through the same element in both directions.
• Dblgauss is a starting design for a conventional photographic objective of the type often used for 35mm single-lens reflex cameras.
• Demotrip is a Cooke triplet used throughout OSLO as a demonstration lens.
• Diodassy is an example of combining two other systems to collimate the beam from an astigmatic diode laser.
• Diodcoll shows a practical lens in which the difference between aplanatic and paraxial ray aiming is clearly visible.
• Ebert is a simple grating monochromator that uses a plane grating.
• Germdiff illustrates the use of a diffractive surface to correct the chromatic aberration of an infrared system, as well as an aspheric to correct spherical aberration.
• Grinlens shows the use of gradient-index materals to make a focusing element for a CD player.
• Grinrod is an example system designed using a hypothetical gradient material.
• Hologram illustrates diffractive surfaces, as well as the difference in image quality that comes from making the second principal surface of an optical system curved instead of flat.
• Hubble is the design formula used for the original Hubble Space Telescope.
• Lasrcomm is the final design of the laser communication system described next.
• Lasrdblt is the final design of the air-spaced doublet.
• Magnifyr is a plano-convex singlet set up as a visual magnifier.
• Magfrenl uses a Fresnel surface to correct the geometrical aberration and a diffractive surface to correct the chromatic aberration of a simple magnifier.
• Mquartet is the best solution found to the design problem posed at the 1994 International Lens Design Conference.
• Nikofish is a wide-angle system with a field of view greater than 90 degrees.
• Pentprsm shows the use of special aperture data, as well as 3d boundary (bdi) data, used to enter data for a pentaprism.
• Perfmag2 is an example of a perfect lens.
• Petzval is a starting design for a large aperture narrow-field photographic lens.
• Prismirr is the final system from the prism data-entry example.
• Riflscop shows the use of the pickup-length-minus (pkp lnm) command to hold a constant image location.
• Schmidt shows the application of an aspheric surface as well as an obstruction in the setup of a wide-field telescope.
• Schwarz is a catoptric (i.e. containing only mirrors) system often used as a microscope objective.
• Xarmdemo is a system that captures light over more than a hemisphere.
• Yagcavty shows the final design of the YAG laser cavity described elsewhere, and can be used to check your results.
• Singelem illustrates the use of the ISO 10110 drawing routines in OSLO to make element drawings suitable for fabrication.
• Movie shows the propagation of a Gaussian beam through a simple lens, and shows the use of OSLO to make animated sequences of drawings, as well as the interesting optical effects encountered when focusing low-aperture Gaussian beams.
• Walker provides references for the 11 designs contained in the publiclendemowalker.
• Apertures.
• Doublet/Meniscus Solution.
• Ray-based SCP optimization.
• Lens entry - right-angle prism.
• Laser cavity design.
• Tolerancing.