Structural design of broken contact doublets with prespecified aberration targets using genetic algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents an implementation of a genetic algorithm in the structural design of broken contact doublets according to a prespecified set of Gaussian characteristics and primary aberration targets. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the algorithm in finding out global as well as useful local optima and its dependence on some parameters characterizing the genetic operators. Actual glasses are taken as variables. Some illustrative examples are given.