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November 2, 2004

Background Information: Basic Optics

The behavior of simple lenses has been well known for centuries; calculable since Descartes. Nevertheless, in everyday practice, the use of these basics turns out to be astonishingly hard. To aid in the learning (or freshening up) of these basic optical laws, we have prepared the following background essays: Download white papers.

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