US 11,940,607 B2
Variable magnification optical system and imaging apparatus
Taro Asami, Saitama (JP); and Toshihiro Aoi, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/066,967.
Application 18/066,967 is a division of application No. 17/094,288, filed on Nov. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,567,307.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-205022 (JP), filed on Nov. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0131009 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 15/14 (2006.01); G02B 13/14 (2006.01); G02B 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 15/144 (2019.08) [G02B 13/14 (2013.01); G02B 15/143105 (2019.08); G02B 15/144105 (2019.08); G02B 15/144113 (2019.08); G02B 15/16 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A variable magnification optical system comprising, as lens groups consecutively in order from an object side to an image side:
a first lens group;
a second lens group;
a third lens group; and
a fourth lens group,
wherein all intervals between adjacent lens groups are changed during changing magnification, and
in a case where a d-line back focus in an air-conversion distance of the variable magnification optical system at a telephoto end is denoted by Bfd, a back focus in any one wavelength from a wavelength of 1300 nm to a wavelength of 2325.42 nm in the air-conversion distance of the variable magnification optical system at the telephoto end is denoted by BfIR, a d-line focal length of the variable magnification optical system at the telephoto end is denoted by ft, a focal length of the first lens group is denoted by f1, a focal length of the second lens group is denoted by f2, a focal length of the third lens group is denoted by f3, a refractive index in F line is denoted by nF, a refractive index in C line is denoted by nC, a refractive index in a wavelength of 1970.09 nm is denoted by n1970, and a partial dispersion ratio θ is defined as θ=(nC−n1970)/(nF−nC) for each lens of all lens groups, and an average of θ of all lenses of the third lens group is denoted by θ3 ave, Conditional Expressions (1), (25-4), (30) and (4) are satisfied, which are represented by
−0.0022<(Bfd−BfIR)/ft  (1)
0.3<ft/f1<6  (25-4)
−10<f3/f2<−0.1  (30)
1.4<θ3 ave  (4).