Nonastigmatic
APR 01, 1950
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066845
Cylinders and paraboloids, which, like the sphere, are surfaces of the second degree, were the only aspherical surfaces used for lenses and mirrors until the Schmidt corrector plate, a surface of higher degree, was successfully introduced into optics.
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© 1950 American Institute of Physics
