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The Lie-aIgebraic formulation of geometrical rays for imaging systems is transcribed to a form suitable for wave fields. The merits of a coherent-state wave field formulation are stressed along with a related path-integral representation suitable for a study of general aberrations.
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Klauder, J.R. (1986). Wave theory of imaging systems. In: Sánchez Mondragón, J., Wolf, K.B. (eds) Lie Methods in Optics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 250. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16471-5_6
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