Thin Lenses and Chromatic Aberrations
Winter
2014
Elegant Connections in Physics
Thin Lenses and Chromatic Aberrations
Designing a system of lenses that will make red light and blue light come to a focus
By:Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Professor of Physics, Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, OK
Imagine you, a physicist, have been hired as an optical engineer for a camera manufacturing company. You have been given the task of designing a system of lenses that will make red light and blue light come to a focus at the same spot...
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