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How to Design Diffractive Optics Using the Binary 2 surface
- By Nam-Hyong Kim
- Published 26 September 2005
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Achromatization using Binary 2: B
Optimize the system for best focus using the RMS Spot Radius default merit function.

After optimization the variable in the editor, the thickness of surface #2, will be close to 51.608 mm.
The longitudinal aberration plot under Unalysis>Miscellaneous>Longitudinal Color shows significant amount of longitudinal color abberation.

We will now add some diffractive power to the Binary 2 surface.
Open the Extra Data Editor and set the following parameter values and set the coefficients of r^2 and r^4 as variables..
Re-optimize the system.
Notice that the longitudinal color is now much smaller than before.

