Caustic surface and the Coddington equations
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 66 (1) , 76-77
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.66.000076
Abstract
The caustic surface, which is the locus of the sagittal and tangential focal points for general skew rays, is shown to be given by the Coddington equations for the special case of meridional rays reflected or refracted by a spherical surface.Keywords
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