Bulletin of the American Physical Society
53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume 67, Number 7
Monday–Friday, May 30–June 3 2022; Orlando, Florida
Session F01: Poster Session I (4:30-6:30pm, EDT)
4:30 PM,
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Room: Grand Ballroom C
Abstract: F01.00080 : The usefulness of homogeneous coordinates in paraxial optics
Presenter:
Theodore A Corcovilos
(Duquesne University)
Author:
Theodore A Corcovilos
(Duquesne University)
Most optics work in this regard has been on the tracing of non-diffracting rays through the optical system.The key result we derive is that given the ray transfer matrix for an optical system, we can use homogenous coordinates to also easily define a point transfer matrix that maps points in the object space of the optical system onto their respective image points, including points infinitely far away. We demonstrate the usefulness of this method with several examples, and discuss future directions to expand this technique.
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