Achromatic Objective Lens

An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration. Achromatic lenses are corrected to bring two wavelengths (typically red and blue) into focus in the same plane. The most common type of achromat is the achromatic doublet, which is composed of two individual lenses made fromglasses with different amounts of dispersion. Typically, one element is a negative (concave) element made out of flint glasssuch as F2, which has relatively high dispersion, and the other is a positive (convex) element made of crown glass such as BK7, which has lower dispersion. The lens elements are mounted next to each other, often cemented together, and shaped so that the chromatic aberration of one is counterbalanced by that of the other