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US 5,172,272 AGranted
Imaging lens system
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorNorihiko Aoki
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Abstract
An imaging lens system comprising, in the order from the object side, a first lens component having a convex surface on the object side and a positive refractive power, a second lens component having a concave surface on the image side and a negative refractive power, and a third lens component. Through the imaging lens system is of a triplet or Tessar type, the lens system is designed so as to have a high aperture ratio and favorably corrected coma by arranging a radial GRIN lens element having a concave surface on the image side and a positive refractive power at the most image side location in the third lens component.
Claims17
An imaging lens system comprising, in the order from the object side;
- a first lens component having a convex surface on the object side and a positive refractive power;
- a second lens component having an object side surface and an image side surface that are both convex toward the object side, and a negative refractive power;
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- a third lens component, said third lens component comprising a positive lens element disposed on the most image side of the third lens component, said positive lens element having a convex surface on the image side,
- wherein said positive lens element of said third lens component is a graded refractive index lens element having a refractive index that varies in the radial direction, the refractive index of said graded refractive index lens system being expressed by the formula shown below, and said imaging optical system satisfying the following conditions (1) and (2):
- n(r)=N.sub.0 +N.sub.1 r.sup.2 +N.sub.2 r.sup.4 +....
- N.sub.1 <0 (i)
- -7. 0<N.sub.1(1) .multidot.f.sup.2 <-0.5 (1)
- 0.1<F.multidot.t/f<1.5 (2)
- wherein the reference symbol N.sub.0 represents the refractive index of said graded refractive index lens element as measured on an optical axis of the imaging lens system, the reference symbol r designates the distance as measured from the optical axis to a lens portion of interest in the radial direction, the reference symbol n(r) denotes the refractive index of a portion of the lens located at the distance r from the optical axis, the reference symbols N.sub.1, N.sub.2, N.sub.3, ... represent the refractive index distribution coefficients of the second order, fourth order, sixth order, ..., the reference symbol f designates the focal length of the imaging lens system as a whole, the reference symbol t denotes he thickness of the graded refractive lens element as measured on the optical axis, the reference symbol F represents the F number of the imaging lens system and the reference symbol N.sub.1(1) designates the index distribution coefficient of the second order of said GRIN lens element.
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An imaging lens system comprising, in the order from the object side:
- a first lens component having a convex surface on the object side and a positive refractive power;
- a second lens component having a concave surface on the image side and a negative refractive power;
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- a third lens component, said third lens component comprising a positive lens element disposed on the most image side of the third lens component, said positive lens element having a convex surface on the image side, and being a graded refractive index lens element having refractive index that varies in the radial direction as expressed by the formula shown below and satisfying the following conditions:
- n(r)=N.sub.0 +N.sub.1 r.sup.2 +N.sub.2 r.sup.4 +....
- N.sub.1 <0 (i)
- -7.0<N.sub.1(10) .multidot.f.sup.2 <-0.5 (1)
- 0.1<F.multidot.t/f<1.5 (2)
- wherein the reference symbol N.sub.0 represents the refractive index of said grade refractive index lens element as measured on an optical axis of the imaging lens system, the reference symbol r designates the distance as measured from the optical axis to a lens portion of interest in the radial direction, the reference symbol n(r) denotes the refractive index of a portion of the lens located at the distance r from the optical axis, the reference symbols N.sub.1, N.sub.2, N.sub.3, ... represent the refractive index distribution coefficients of the second order, fourth order, sixth order, ..., the reference symbol f designates a focal length of the imaging lens system as a whole, the reference symbol t denotes thickness of the graded refractive index lens element as measured on the optical axis, the reference symbol F represents a F number of the imaging lens system and the reference symbol N.sub.1(1) designates the index distribution coefficient of the second order of said graded refractive index lens element.
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