Achromatic lens
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achromatic-lens-182-17859627
title:
Achromatic lens
text:
An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration. Achromatic lenses are corrected to bring two wavelengths into focus on the same plane. Wavelengths in between these two then have better focus error than could be obtained with a simple lens. The most common type of achromat is the achromatic doublet, which is composed of two individual lenses made from glasses with different amounts of dispersion. Typically, one element is a neg
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description:
Lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatic_lens
date created:
2003-02-24T20:17:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T03:27:55Z
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