Freeform Optics (Freeform)

Freeform Optics explores the evolving impact of freeform optical surfaces on optical systems for both imaging and nonimaging science and technologies.

New fabrication techniques that create optical surfaces that are not surfaces of revolution open an expansive new space for optical systems. Enabled systems include illumination systems, imaging optics from microscopy to space optics, including head-worn and head-up displays, and broadband pervasive surveillance systems. But optical testing methods for these new surfaces are lacking, and the theory and implementation of an aberration theory as a basis for optical design of these surfaces was only unraveled in 2012. The scope features work on the optical design of imaging systems with freeform surfaces, evolving methods for surface representation for nonimaging system optimization and a perspective on the new challenges these surfaces present to optical testing.

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Chairs

Jessica DeGroote Nelson

Edmund Optics Inc., United States,
General Chair

Fabian Duerr

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium,
General Chair

Kyle Fuerschbach

Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, United States,
Program Chair

Jannick Rolland

University of Rochester, United States,
Program Chair

Committee Members

• Jessica DeGroote Nelson, Edmund Optics Inc., United States, General Chair
• Fabian Duerr, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, General Chair
• Kyle Fuerschbach, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, United States, Program Chair
• Jannick Rolland, University of Rochester, United States, Program Chair
• Jeroen Cerpentier, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Scott Defisher, OptiPro Systems, United States
• Joseph Howard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States
• John Koshel, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, United States
• Thierry Lepine, Institut d'Optique Lab Hubert Curien, France
• Eric Schiesser, Synopsys, Inc, United States
• Nick Takaki, Synopsys, Inc, United States
• Wilhelm Ulrich, Carl Zeiss AG
• Kristen Venditti, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States
• Yongtian Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Garrett West, Ball Aerospace, United States