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Double Freeform Lens Design for Laser Beam Shaping: A Least-Squares Approach

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The location of the surfaces of a double freeform lens, required for laser beam shaping, is governed by a Monge-Ampère type equation. We outline a least-squares solver and demonstrate the performance of the method for an example.

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Boonkkamp, J. . .t.T., Yadav, N.K., IJzerman, W.L. (2019). Double Freeform Lens Design for Laser Beam Shaping: A Least-Squares Approach. In: Faragó, I., Izsák, F., Simon, P. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2018. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27550-1_37

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