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Welcome to our Physics lesson on Aberration in Lenses, this is the seventh lesson of our suite of physics lessons covering the topic of Lenses. Equation of Lenses. Image Formation of Lenses, you can find links to the other lessons within this tutorial and access additional physics learning resources below this lesson.
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.
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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