Spherical Aberration -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Spherical Aberration

An optical aberration caused because a spherical lens or mirror does not focus parallel rays to a point, but along a line. Therefore, off-axis rays are brought to a focus closer to the lens than are on-axis rays.

Spherical Mirror


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