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Physics Lesson 12.9.7 - Aberration in Lenses

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Aberration in Lenses

When we use lenses, light passes from air to another medium (usually glass) and refracts through it. It is a known fact that all lenses have their own thickness, which is different in various part of them. We have stated earlier that converging lenses are thicker at middle and diverging lenses are thicker at edges.

Aberration is the non-regular deviation of light rays through lenses due to non-uniform thickness, causing images of objects to be blurred.

In an ideal system, every point on the object will focus to a point of zero size on the image. However, in reality this does not occur, because lenses are not ideal optical tools. As a result, parallel rays do not converge at a single dimensionless point as assumed earlier, but in a zone around focus, as shown in the figure.

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In curved mirrors, aberrations are less visible as light does not enter inside the glass but it is reflected by the mirroring surface. Therefore, curved mirrors are more preferable than lenses to be used in powerful optical systems such as telescopes and microscopes.

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12.9.1What Are Lenses? Types of Lenses
12.9.2Special Rays in Lenses
12.9.3Image Formation in Converging Lenses
12.9.4Image Formation in Diverging Lenses
12.9.5Equation of Lenses
12.9.6Magnification Produced by Lenses
12.9.7Aberration in Lenses
12.9.8Combined Systems of Lenses and Curved Mirrors

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