Optics Express • Vol 33 • No 16
Design of high-performance complex imaging systems enabled by automatic successive optimization
July 2025 • Shenyu Zhao, Huiming Xu, Dewen Cheng, Yinuo Cheng, Yongtian Wang, Tong Yang
The traditional optical design process requires designers to intervene continuously from finding the starting point to obtaining the final design result, making it a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. At the same time, an increasing number of systems incorporate complex surface shapes and off-axis nonsymmetric structures, which help address imaging challenges but simultaneously introduce considerable design complexity. In this paper, we present an automatic design framework for high-performance complex imagi…