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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2019
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Alejandro Maldonado, Tucson, AZ (US);
David J. Knapp, Tucson, AZ (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
Examples are directed to an approach to specifying design guidelines for fabricating a free-form optical component, and methods of fabricating the free-form optical components. In one example, a family of optical prescriptions is created, and a fabricator may manufacture the free-form optical element to any selected prescription within the family. According to certain examples, the series of prescriptions in the family each describe a very similar optical surface providing the same or similar optical performance, and are layered relative to one another such that the thickness of the optical element at any point is slightly less for each subsequent surface defined by the next prescription in the series.