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The rigorous way of treating light is to accept its electromagnetic wave nature and solve Maxwell’s equations. However the number of configurations for which exact solutions can be found is very limited and most practical cases require approximations.
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Iizuka, K. (1987). Geometrical Optics. In: Engineering Optics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36808-3_5
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