Making a Monolithic Telescope Part 1: Optical Design and Aspherics.

Video Contents: 00:00 General Intro 00:56 Spherical is easy 01:32 Aspherical is hard 01:59 Ideal lens vs. spherical surface lens 03:17 The concept of the light ray 04:47 A little optics quizz 06:21 Optimum spot size using iterative numercal analysis 07:56 Use of optical design software (Zemax) 09:45 Theory of aspherics 10:54 Conical aspherics 12:02 Polynomial aspherics and even aspheres 14:24 Numerical optimization in aspherics 15:30 Effect of introducing an aspherical surface 16:55 Optical design of monolithinc telescopes 18:23 Material choice and CTE 20:52 Classical Cassegrain configuration 22:10 Schmidt Cassegrain configuration If you want to support the production of these videos, you can now become a Patron of the channel. You can find more information on : Reference to my original video on tiny monolithic telescopes: LInk to my video on conics: For the record, I do not hav