Aberrations

In an ideal optical system, all rays of light from a point in the object plane would converge to the same point in the image plane, forming a clear image. The influences which cause different rays to converge to different points are called aberrations.

Summary of aberrations and corrections
Index

Lens concepts
 
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Summary of Aberrations

In an ideal optical system, all rays of light from a point in the object plane would converge to the same point in the image plane, forming a clear image. The influences which cause different rays to converge to different points are called aberrations.

Index

Lens concepts

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Meyer-Arendt
Ch 5
 
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