Direct, stigmatic, imaging with curved surfaces

Courtial, J. , Oxburgh, S. and Tyc, T. (2015) Direct, stigmatic, imaging with curved surfaces. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision, 32(3), pp. 478-481. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.32.000478)

Abstract

We study the possibilities of direct (using one intersection with each light ray) stigmatic imaging with a curved surface that can change ray directions in an arbitrary way. By purely geometric arguments we show that the only possible case of such imaging is the trivial one where the image of any point is identical to the point itself and the surface does not perform any change of the ray direction at all. We also discuss an example of a curved surface which performs indirect stigmatic imaging after twice intersecting each light ray.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Courtial, Dr Johannes and Oxburgh, Mr Stephen
• Authors: Courtial, J., Oxburgh, S., and Tyc, T.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision
• Publisher: Optical Society of America
• ISSN: 1084-7529
• ISSN (Online): 1520-8532

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
60895	1	Engineering and Physical Sciences Doctoral Training Grant 2012-16	Mary Beth Kneafsey	Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)	EP/K503058/1	VICE PRINCIPAL RESEARCH & ENTERPRISE