Papers Published
- Son, HS; Marks, DL; Hahn, J; Kim, J; Brady, DJ, Design of a spherical focal surface using close-packed relay optics.,
Opt Express, vol. 19 no. 17
(August, 2011),
pp. 16132-16138 [21934976], [doi] .
(last updated on 2024/04/17)Abstract:
This paper presents a design strategy for close-packing circular finite-conjugate optics to create a spherical focal surface. Efficient packing of circles on a sphere is commonly referred to as the Tammes problem and various methods for packing optimization have been investigated, such as iterative point-repulsion simulations. The method for generating the circle distributions proposed here is based on a distorted icosahedral geodesic. This has the advantages of high degrees of symmetry, minimized variations in circle separations, and computationally inexpensive generation of configurations with N circles, where N is the number of vertices on the geodesic. These properties are especially beneficial for making a continuous focal surface and results show that circle packing densities near steady-state maximum values found with other methods can be achieved.