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What are paraxial rays?

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12 Years agoGrade upto college level
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12 Years ago
A paraxial ray is a ray that makes a small angle to the optical axis of the system, and lies close to the axis throughout the system. Such rays can be modeled reasonably well by using the paraxial approximation.