Optics and Optical Design - How Does an Aperture Stop Influence Third Order Lens Aberrations? A Tutorial using Excel

This video tutorial describes the influence that shop-shifting has on the 3rd order Seidel and chromatic optical aberrations of a lens. An Excel spreadsheet is used to conduct soft experiments on these effects. All of these videos are meant to guide students in PHYS 352 through computational ray tracing. I make a lot of videos showing spreadsheets and MatLab code that are useful for optical design. The purpose is to help people who wish to make their own spreadsheets, or to write their own code. Please don't ask me to post my own files. Write your own. That's the idea. Introduction to the paraxial ray trace equations https://youtu.be/g-mPisltcRQ Chromatic aberration https://youtu.be/eYkN8KQbRKk A very thorough guide for YNU spreadsheeting, and an important resource to help you work through your own spreadsheet, is the "Pencil of Rays" website https://www.pencilofrays.com/lens-des... My favorite book reference for this is Introduction to Lens Design With Practical Zemax Examples by Joseph M. Geary. OpticStudio is a product of Zemax (www.zemax.com) Please consider clicking on "Like" so that I know what sort of content is being appreciated. I don't ask for support for developing this content, just the satisfaction of knowing that it is appreciated. Optical Design Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmfHzApbF5dbx_S_h9A13uLm4LVK0f6XK #LensDesign #YNUspreadsheet #OpticalDesign #ChromaticAberration