Method of initial design of a two-element double-sided telecentric optical system

An algebraic method for finding fundamental parameters of a starting design of a two-element double-sided telecentric lens is introduced in this work. The telecentric lens is formed by two objectives composed of an afocal meniscus lens followed by a cemented doublet. It is used the third-order aberration theory to find the fundamental parameters of the starting configuration of a given optical system. The method gives results which make possible to obtain a good initial design of such a telecentric lens for further optimization using optical design software. The proposed method is presented on an example of finding initial design parameters of the double-sided telecentric lens.