Plano-Convex (PCX) Lenses have a positive focal length, making them ideal for collecting and focusing light in imaging applications. They are also useful in a variety of applications involving emitters, detectors, lasers, and fiber optics. Coated versions have optimum light transmission. Available in a wide variety of diameters and focal lengths. Plano-Concave (PCV) lenses have one flat and one inward curved surface. PCV lenses have a negative focal length and are used for image reduction or to spread light. Double-Convex (DCX) Lenses have two outward curved surfaces, a positive focal length and are useful for 1:1 imaging and in multi-element systems. Double-Concave (DCV) Lenses have two inward curved surfaces and a negative focal length. They are used for image reduction and to spread light. Meniscus lenses are convex-concave lenses. They have one outward curved face and one inward-curved face. If the outward curve is sharper than the inward curve, the lens has a positive focal length and acts as a magnifier.
A zoom lens is a system of camera lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (prime lens).
A true zoom lens or optical zoom lens is a type of parfocal lens, one that maintains focus when its focal length changes.[1] Most consumer zoom lenses do not maintain perfect focus, but are still nearly parfocal. Most camera phones that are advertised as having optical zoom actually use a few cameras of different but fixed focal length, combined with digital zoom to make a hybrid system.
Dia.=diameter ; Do= Inside diameter ; FL= focal length
BFL= Back of focus ; CT= Center Thickness ; ET = Edge Thickness
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While in principle aspheric surfaces can take a wide variety of forms, aspheric lenses are often designed with surfaces of the form
where the optic axis is presumed to lie in the z direction, and z(r) is the sag—the z-component of the displacement of the surface from the vertex, at distance
r from the axis. The coefficients alpha;describe the deviation of the surface from the axially symmetric quadric surface specified by R and kappa .
If the coefficients alpha are all zero, then R is the radius of curvature and kappa is the conic constant, as measured at the vertex (where r=0). In this case, the surface has the form of a conic section rotated about the optic axis, with form determined by kappa :
The above equation suffers from strong correlation between the coefficients of the first term and the polynomial terms. This leads to strong divergences when it comes to fitting the equation to an aspheric surface. Therefore, different equations using "Q-polynomials" where coefficients are orthogonal to each other are an alternative that is sometimes used.