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<DIV><b>1) Désiré van Monckhoven, <I>Photographic Optics; Including the Description of Lenses and Enlarging Apparatus</I></b>, translated from the original French by Robert Hardwicke, Piccadilly, London, 1867, reprinted by Arno Press, New York, NY, 1979.
<UL>This is one of the earliest references on photographic optics, and it provides optical prescriptions and detailed drawings of several of the more interesting designs in use during the mid-19th century, including the original Petzval portrait lens, the Harrison Globe lens and the Dallmeyer triplet. Also included is a fascinating section on solar enlargers. In English, translated from French.</UL><B>2) Adolph Steinheil and Ernest Voit, <I>Handbuch der Angewandten Optik</I></B>, circa 1890, translated from the original German and edited by James Weir French as <I>Applied Optics: The Computation of Optical Systems</I>, (2 volumes), Blackie and Son Limited, London, 1918.
<UL><I>Handbuch der Angewandten Optik</I> is primarily a manual of trigonometrical ray tracing and aberration calculation, but volume 2 contains a chapter which provides optical prescriptions for 45 different achromatic doublet objectives corrected for spherical aberration. In English, translated from German.</UL><B>3) Moritz von Rohr, <I>Theorie und Geschichte des Photographischen Objektivs</I></B>, Julius Springer, Berlin, 1899, reprinted by Arno Press, New York, NY, 1979.
<UL>This outstanding book was published at the end of a very productive decade of optical design, and it gives optical prescriptions and performance data for 48 different classic objectives ranging from Wallaston’s meniscus landscape lens to two different versions of the Cooke triplet to a very modern looking double Gauss lens designed by Paul Rudolph. Unfortunately, most of the prescriptions omit glass dispersion information, listing only nD. In German.</UL><B>4) A. E. Conrady, <I>Applied Optics and Optical Design</I></B>, (2 parts), Part One published by Oxford University Press, London, 1929, and republished by Dover, New York, NY, 1957; Part Two is a posthumous publication edited and completed by Rudolf Kingslake and Fred H. Perrin, published by Dover, New York, NY, 1960.
<UL>A great deal of <I>Applied Optics and Optical Design</I> is devoted to ray tracing and aberration calculation, but there are also many detailed design examples. Conrady emphasizes the design process, which is typically discussed in great detail, rather than simply cataloging a number of well-corrected optical designs. The designs covered include achromatic doublets, eyepieces, several types of microscope objectives, and more than 15 different types of photographic objectives. In English.</UL><B>5) Willy Merté, Robert Richter, and Moritz von Rohr, <I>Das Photographische Objectiv</I></B>, Julius Springer, Vienna, 1932.
<UL><I>Das Photographische Objectiv</I> gives optical prescriptions and performance data for 130 different lens designs found mainly in German, European, and U.S. patents dating from the 1890’s through the 1920’s. In German.</UL><B>6) Willy Merté, <I>The Zeiss Index of Photographic Lenses</I></B>, (2 volumes), published by the Central Air Documents Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, 1950.
<UL>The <I>Zeiss Index</I> is a unique and extremely interesting publication of a card index of more than 1500 lens designs maintained by of the Carl Zeiss Company from the turn of the century up to the end of World War II. The Central Air Documents Office publication is a reproduction of photostatic copies of the original handwritten cards, and many of these copies are illegible. In addition, about 250 of the original cards were lost before copies could be made. Despite this, more than 1000 designs are clear enough to be of use to lens designers. Although some of the designs are derived from patent data, most appear to be the actual designs used by Zeiss for lens manufacture. The extensive table of contents is in English, and the handwritten cards are in German.</UL><B>7) Johannes Flügge, <I>Das Photographische Objektiv</I></B>, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, 1955.
<UL><I>Das Photographische Objektiv</I> is a general text on photographic optics and optical aberrations which includes an appendix giving optical prescriptions and third-order aberration coefficients for 36 different lens designs ranging from 19th and early 20th century classics to the state-of-the-art in the early 1950’s. Also included is an interesting chapter on lens testing. In German.</UL><B>8) Arthur Cox, <I>A System of Optical Design; The Basics of Image Assessment and of Design Techniques with a Survey of Current Lens Types</I></B>, Focal Press, London and New York, NY, 1964.
<UL>This well known reference contains a printed database of approximately 300 lens designs published in U.S. patents from 1935 through 1963. Each design includes a lens layout, performance data, and an optical prescription. Also included in addition to this database is a nearly complete listing of all U.S. and British patents published during that same period which have numerical lens design examples. In English.</UL><B>9) Warren J. Smith, <I>Modern Optical Engineering: The Design of Optical Systems</I></B>, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1966.
<UL><I>Modern Optical Engineering</I> is an excellent general text on optical engineering and lens design, and it includes optical prescriptions and performance data for more than a dozen specific designs. In English.</UL><B>10) Thomas S. Bird, <I>Geometrical Lens Designs in the U.S. Patent Literature</I></B>, published by Thomas S. Bird, Dallas, TX, 1969.
<UL>This is a nearly complete list of all U.S. patents published between 1909 and 1970 which contain numerical lens design examples. The list is sorted by patent number, first inventor, (Bird) Classification Code, total system speed, field dimension, magnification, and zoom range. No lens drawings, performance data, or prescriptions are provided, but the list is useful in compiling a patent file. In English.</UL><B>11) Rudolf Kingslake, <I>Lens Design Fundamentals</I></B>, Academic Press, 1978.
<UL><I>Lens Design Fundamentals</I> is a classic text on lens design in the tradition of Conrady’s <I>Applied Optics and Optical Design</I>. As in Conrady’s book, the emphasis is on the design process rather than the end result. Several dozen designs are presented, including photographic objectives, reflective systems, and eyepieces. In English.</UL><B>12) Harrie Rutten and Martin van Venrooij, <I>Telescope Optics: Evaluation and Design</I></B>, Willmann-Bell, Richmond, VA, 1988.
<UL><I>Telescope Optics</I> gives optical prescriptions and performance data for more than 80 telescope and eyepiece designs. Since this book is intended primarily for amateur astronomers, all of the telescope designs have been scaled to an entrance pupil diameter of 200mm. Performance data is provided in the form of spot diagrams, which are quite effective in providing a visual comparison of different design forms. In English.</UL><B>13) Milton Laikin, <I>Lens Design</I></B>, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 1991.
<UL><I>Lens Design</I> gives optical prescriptions, lens layouts and MTF data on more than 80 lens designs. Although patents and literature articles are given as references, most of the lenses appear to be original designs by Milton Laikin. This book is an excellent general text and reference book for practicing lens designers. In English.</UL><B>14) Warren J. Smith and Genesee Optics Software, Inc., <I>Modern Lens Design: A Resource Manual</I></B>, McGraw Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1992.
<UL>This recent book gives optical prescriptions and performance data for nearly 300 designs from patents and other sources. In addition to the longitudinal aberration plots which are also provided by von Rohr, Merté, and Cox, this reference also includes transverse ray aberrations. Many of these designs, such as microscope objectives, mirror systems, laser scanning lenses, zoom lenses, and infrared lenses are for applications which were ignored by the earlier references listed above, or else simply did not exist. In addition to design data, <I>Modern Lens Design</I> has some very good information on the subject of computer aided lens design. Like Laikin’s <I>Lens Design</I>, this is an excellent general text and reference book for practicing lens designers. In English.</UL></DIV>
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