近轴光学
Paraxial means very close to, but not restricted to, the axis Thus, the paraxial region of an axially centered optical system can be viewed as a tiny channel surrounding the axis. Rays lying everywhere within this channel are called palax-ial lays. Palaxial ray heights and ray angles arevery small and approach zero in the limit.
it can be shown that all ray from an object point on the axis are perfectly located at an image point on the axis. There are no aberrations.
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a paraxial off-axis object point and paraxial rays, a perfect point image is similarly achieved.
there is no field curvature and distortion. Even off-axis, there are no abelrations.
A paraxial ray is really only a mathem