Towards Automatic Design of Reflective Optical Systems

Traditional optical design processes can only obtain a few solutions after time-consuming trial-and-error process. During this process, how to select the numbers and sequence of surfaces different types (spherical, aspherical, freeform) required by system remains difficult problem. Currently, no automatic method is available for reflective systems that contain multiple surface types. Therefore, an framework proposed output series results with various combinations automatically input specifications constraints. In first example, 76 imaging qualities near diffraction limit are obtained have 11 type combinations. This realizes system, paving way toward general significantly improving efficiency Using framework, be determined reasonably, solving problem has long puzzled designers. The reduces requirement experience allows more people participate in processes.