Thick Lenses Systems between Arbitrary Index of Refraction Optical Media. A Simple Optical Model for the Human Eye

Fulvio Andres Callegari^1,

¹Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem, e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP, Brasil. Avenida dos Estados, 5001 - Bairro Santa Terezinha Santo André - CEP: 09210-580

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Fulvio Andres Callegari. Thick Lenses Systems between Arbitrary Index of Refraction Optical Media. A Simple Optical Model for the Human Eye. International Journal of Physics. 2021; 9(6):259-268. doi: 10.12691/ijp-9-6-1

Abstract

The optical matrix formalism is applied to find optical parameters such as focal distance, back and front focal points, principal planes and the object image equation for a thick spherical lens immerse in two optical media of different indexes of refraction. Then, the formalism is applied to systems compound of two, three and N thick lenses in cascade, immersed in three, four and N+1 optical media of different indexes, respectively. It is found that a simple Gaussian equation is enough to relate object and image distances no matter the number of lenses. This formalism is validated trough a simple optical matrix model of the human eye.

Keywords:
matrix optics thick lenses back focal length front focal length principal planes multi-lenses system human eye

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