过去廿五年中,光学工程和光学设计从个人略带直观的方法,发展到今天的高度完善的方法。电光学领域的迅速发展对本学科有强烈的影响,并在今后几年内很可能使光学工程中的许多方法有所改变。在过去1/4世纪里,光学工程和光学设计最重要的成就是发展使透镜设计最佳化的与程序组有关的大型计算机程序。除了以几何学与程序组有关的大型为基础的计算机编码外,已经增加用于成象分析的物理光学法,其中包括光学传递函数的计算。现在一台大型计算机可以描绘和分析任何一个光学系统 Over the past 25 years, optical engineering and optical design have evolved from a personal, intuitive approach to today’s highly sophisticated approach. The rapid development in the field of electro-optics has a strong influence on this subject and is likely to change many of the methods in optical engineering in the next few years. In the last quarter of the century, the most significant achievement in optical engineering and optical design was the development of program-related large computer programs that optimized the lens design. In addition to the large-scale computer-based coding associated with programming groups, physical optics methods for imaging analysis have been added, including the calculation of optical transfer functions. Now a large computer can portray and analyze any optical system