Diamond shaped lens system

Abstract

A diamond-shaped lens system includes: a half diamond-shaped lens including refractive material and having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface for refracting incident light beams from an object having a width of X, from the first surface towards the second surface; a first reflective material positioned at the second surface of the half diamond-shaped lens for reflecting the refracted light beams at a first angle toward the third surface; a second reflective material positioned at the third surface of the half diamond-shaped lens for reflecting the light beams reflected from the first reflective material toward the first surface to exit the first surface at a second angle toward the third surface to form an image of the object with a width Y; and; an apparatus for processing the image of the object to reduce chromatic aberrations.

1 . A diamond-shaped lens system comprising:
 a half diamond-shaped lens comprising of refractive material and having a first surface, a second surface and a third surface, wherein the first surface refracts incident light beams from an object having a width of X incident on the first surface, from the first surface towards the second surface;   a chromatic control structure positioned at the second surface of the half diamond-shaped lens for correcting chromatic aberrations of the refracted light beams to generate a corrected refracted light beam;   a first reflective material positioned at the second surface of the half diamond-shaped lens for reflecting the corrected refracted light beams at an angle toward the third surface;   a second reflective material positioned at the third surface of the half diamond-shaped lens for reflecting the light beams reflected from the first reflective material toward the first surface to exit the first surface toward the third surface to form an image of the object with a width Y; and   an apparatus for processing the image of the object to reduce chromatic aberrations.   
     
     
         2 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 1 , wherein a first angle formed between the first surface and the second surface and a second angle formed between the first surface and the third surface are configured to make X smaller than Y to expand the image of the object. 
     
     
         3 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 1 , wherein a first angle formed between the first surface and the second surface and a second angle formed between the first surface and the third surface are configured to make X larger than Y to compress the image of the object. 
     
     
         4 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 1 , further comprising a focusing lens to focus the image of the object onto a sensor or an eyepiece for viewing by a human. 
     
     
         5 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 1 , wherein the apparatus for processing the image is an image processing device executing an image processing programming code to reduce said chromatic aberrations. 
     
     
         6 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 1 , wherein the chromatic control structure includes including one or more of a wedge, a prism, a grin lens, or diffraction gratings. 
     
     
         7 . The diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 6 , wherein the chromatic control structure is further positioned on one or more of the first surface, the second surface and the third surface. 
     
     
         8 . A telescope comprising the diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 2 . 
     
     
         9 . A microscope comprising the diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 3 . 
     
     
         10 . A binocular comprising the diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 2 . 
     
     
         11 . A telecentric lens system comprising the diamond-shaped lens system of  claim 2 .