Abstract
The paraxial approximation makes two assumptions: • All the rays make small angles with the optical axis allowing the replacement of sines and tangents by the angles themselves in radians. • All rays are meridional, i.e. they belong to planes that pass through the optical axis.
© 1998 Optical Society of America
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