DESIGN OF MULTIELEMENT ACIRCULAR WAVE-GUIDE LENS SYSTEMS IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA

We discuss the evaluation and design of wide-field-angle acircular len s systems in anisotropic planar waveguides. After a short summary of t he applied ray and wave optical relations, we examine the aberrations of systems that were optimized for an isotropic waveguide but are embe dded in an anisotropic one. We show that effects of anisotropy must be taken into account in the design of wide-field-lens systems. We prese nt a four-element acircular lens that was optimized using a merit func tion computed for uniaxially anisotropic media.