Aplanat

Quick meaning: Aplanat is a noun meaning (optics) A lens that has been corrected for spherical aberration and coma in order to produce a rectilinear image.

Meaning

(optics) A lens that has been corrected for spherical aberration and coma in order to produce a rectilinear image.

Example Sentences

Some infra-red detectors are sold already embedded in a plastic aplanat.

For comparison, an aplanat of a focus catalogued at 16 inches, actually found by experiment to have a focus of 16 11-16 inches, was used.

2009, Gérard René Lemaitre, Astronomical Optics and Elasticity Theory, Springer, Astronomy and Astrophysics Library, Corrected 3rd printing, page 11, […] which is totally false since he established the algebraic conditions for thin-lens achromatic aplanats;

Word Forms

• aplanats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aplanatism, collimation, aperture, aberration, asphere, rectification.

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