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Raytracing Equations for Paraxial Optics

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Conventional paraxial optics, sometimes known as Gaussian optics, uses \( 2 \times 2 \) raytracing matrices as initial estimates in the early design stage of optical systems [2, 1, 3].

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  1. Attard AE (1984) Matrix optical analysis of skew rays in mixed systems of spherical and orthogonal cylindrical lenses. Appl Opt 23:2706–2709

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Psang Dain Lin

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Lin, P.D. (2017). Raytracing Equations for Paraxial Optics. In: Advanced Geometrical Optics. Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2299-9_4

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