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Starting from Fermat’s principle, Hamilton introduced characteristic functions for analyzing the behavior of the rays in a general optical system (see [23]).
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For other, more recent, approaches to the aberrations, see [27]–[30]
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Romano, A., Cavaliere, R. (2016). Fermat’s Principle and Third-Order Aberrations. In: Geometric Optics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43732-3_3
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