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Second-order derivatives of optical path length of ray with respect to variable vector of source ray

Yu-Bin Chen1, Psang Dain Lin

  • 1National Cheng Kung University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.

Applied Optics
|August 4, 2012
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