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What does aplanatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (optics, of an optical system) Free from, or corrected for, spherical aberration and chromatic aberration
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The aplanatic condenser is not corrected for color, hence objectionable color fringes are produced around the field of view diaphragm.
The results indicates that the aplanatic hologram lenses are feasible for optical disk applications.
These locations for which spherical correction has been optimized are called the aplanatic points.
Adding an aplanatic meniscus lens to an achromatic lens can increase relative aperture without introducing additional spherical aberration.
These aplanatic components have the property of converging the light without adding spherical aberration to the image and provide an increase in the N. A. without introducing significant aberration.
We can apply the same reasoning to rods and transformation of cylindrical diverging wavefront using aplanatic points of the rods.

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