Spherical Aberration in a Plane-Convex Lens

spacing of light rays

1.433

refractive index

1.5

1.75

2

This Demonstration shows the spherical aberration in a plane-convex lens. For an incident plane wave, a convex-plane lens (bottom) has less spherical aberration than a plane-convex lens (top).

Permanent Citation

Chi Zhang, Ruibo Jin

"Spherical Aberration in a Plane-Convex Lens"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SphericalAberrationInAPlaneConvexLens/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: January 4, 2023