Tag: seidel aberration
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Primary aberration, a lecture in optics.
Lecture-II; delivered on 27-1-2017 In our Lecture-I we discussed the phenomena of aberrations that arise because of a discrepancy of a first order theory and the 3rd order theory as depicted by the Maclaurin series; where we saw that first order theory represents the so called paraxial optical systems. Please have a look of the linked…
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Aberrations, a lecture in optics.
Optics series Lecture — I Optical Aberrations delivered on 24 – 1 – 2017 — all optics series lectures can be accessed here. This lecture has been delivered in one of the honors class that I am teaching this semester. You will do really well to read the linked article on Optical path and Fermat’s principle…