Analytical solution of an afocal two freeform mirror design problem

Opt Express. 2017 Feb 20;25(4):4155-4161. doi: 10.1364/OE.25.004155.

Abstract

We investigate a new afocal two freeform mirror design problem in first order optics. The resulting first-order partial differential equations for the freeform two mirror system have an analytic solution with the sole condition that the x-y and x'-y' axes are parallel. Two selected solutions are presented. One of them is semiaplanatic (fulfilling the aplanatic condition only for the x-coordinates), while the other is, to our knowledge, the first example of an aplanatic two-mirror system without rotational symmetry.