Temperature-compensated plastic lens for visible light

Stefan M. B. Baumer; Wim A. G. Timmers; Mark Krichever; Vladimir Gurevich

doi:10.1117/12.360028

27 August 1999 Temperature-compensated plastic lens for visible light

Stefan M. B. Baumer, Wim A. G. Timmers, Mark Krichever, Vladimir Gurevich

Proceedings Volume 3737, Design and Engineering of Optical Systems II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.360028
Event: Optical Systems Design and Production, 1999, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

In many consumer and professional plastic lenses have potential applications because of cost, weight and aspherical shape. However they suffer from a big disadvantage: large amount of focal shift as function of temperature. In particular for bar code scanners, focal shifts due to temperature changes have huge impacts on the function of the scanner. One possibility to improve the temperature behavior of such lenses is to turn them into so- called hybrids: a combination of a refractive and a diffractive surface. This way a temperature compensation can be achieved that reaches the level of glass lenses. In this paper design and manufacturing considerations for such a lens will be given. This includes proper material choice and mechanical design. The lens is temperature compensated over a range from -230 degrees-+60 degrees C. Operating at 650 nm and having a focal length of 4 mm, makes it extra difficult to produce such a lens with sufficient image quality and diffraction efficiency. Results from the design will be compared with measured values from an injection molded sample of the designed lens. Quality parameter such as wavefront quality, focal shift with temperature and diffraction efficiency will be given.

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Stefan M. B. Baumer, Wim A. G. Timmers, Mark Krichever, and Vladimir Gurevich "Temperature-compensated plastic lens for visible light", Proc. SPIE 3737, Design and Engineering of Optical Systems II, (27 August 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.360028

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