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Rayleigh limit

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lenses and optical systems

In optics: The Rayleigh limit
As noted above, when a perfect lens forms an image of a point source of light, the emerging wave is a sphere centred about the image point. The optical paths from all points on the wave to the image are therefore equal, so…
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