Seidel Optical Aberrations

visualization

transverse

spot diagram

f-number

3

object height

0.7

defocus

2

tilt

-1

spherical

2

coma

-5

astigmatism

0

field curvature

0

distortion

2

This Demonstration shows the sagittal, the tangential transversal third-order aberrations, and the corresponding spot diagram for an optical system, which result from Seidel aberrations. These are described more fully in Details.