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Abstract:
A method to design catadioptric systems from scratch based on optimizing an element of the power set of stigmatic catadioptric systems is presented. This set contains all possible stigmatic catadioptric systems. The deduction of the set is also presented in this paper, and its derivation is totally analytical. Additionally, an illustrative example of optimization of an element of the mentioned set is presented. The results are as expected.
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