System NA Vs. beam NA. How we should change the ray tracing analysis paradigm to enable realistic non-sequential optical system analysis

David Vega; Erin Elliott; João Mendes-Lopes; Han-Hsiang Cheng; Xu Chen; Alessandra Croce

doi:10.1117/12.2692125

15 May 2024 System NA Vs. beam NA. How we should change the ray tracing analysis paradigm to enable realistic non-sequential optical system analysis

David Vega, Erin Elliott, João Mendes-Lopes, Han-Hsiang Cheng, Xu Chen, Alessandra Croce

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Proceedings Volume 12798, International Optical Design Conference 2023; 127981K (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2692125
Event: International Optical Design Conference 2023, 2023, Quebec City, QC, Canada

Abstract

We present results of a method to calculate the numerical aperture and diffraction-limited Airy radius (AR) in a non-sequential (NSQ) ray-trace simulation which results in <0.05% difference in AR when compared with sequential (SEQ) methodology.

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David Vega, Erin Elliott, João Mendes-Lopes, Han-Hsiang Cheng, Xu Chen, and Alessandra Croce "System NA Vs. beam NA. How we should change the ray tracing analysis paradigm to enable realistic non-sequential optical system analysis", Proc. SPIE 12798, International Optical Design Conference 2023, 127981K (15 May 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2692125

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