Infrared Optics and Zoom Lenses

This Tutorial Text is an outgrowth of the author's short course of the same title.

It is intended as an introduction to readers unfamiliar with infrared zoom lenses, and as an aid to the practising engineer pursuing a related application.

The first three chapters introduce the principles of optics and the unique aspects of the infrared region of the wavelength spectrum, with related optical design techniques addressed in Chapter 4.

Chapters 5 through 8 present material unique to the subject of zoom lenses in the infrared.

The appendix contains three landmark infrared zoom lens patents in their entirety, providing lens prescription data and a starting point for future design activity, in addition to the author's computer analysis of the three patents.