Planapochromatic

adjectiveStandard termPhotonics

Highly corrected for three colors of chromatic aberration and field curvature.

Describes a premium lens system that achieves apochromatic color correction while simultaneously flattening the focal plane. These lenses eliminate color fringing across a wide spectrum and maintain edge-to-edge sharpness, making them essential for high-resolution microscopy and precision metrology where focus drift across the field is unacceptable.

Heard on the job

The planapochromatic objective costs ten times more, but we need it to resolve the sub-micron features across the entire wafer.

Also heard as

  • plan apochromat