paraxial image

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optical ray-tracing

  • reflection of light
    In optics: Paraxial, or first-order, imagery

    In a lens that has spherical aberration, the various rays from an axial object point will in general intersect the lens axis at different points after emerging into the image space. By tracing several rays entering the lens at different heights…

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