Talk:Optical lens design

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh Ridiculous drivel. Performing ray tracing at the speed of light that is nonsense.

[edit] Matrix transforms for lenses

I remember seeing some MIT OCW notes about modeling an optical system as a series of linear transformations, with a matrix representing each lens. Is there a name for this approach? It should at least be referenced here if not described here. —Ben FrantzDale 02:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

For reference, it's this course and in particular this lecture, which describes this as "Matrix Formulation of Geometrical Optics". —Ben FrantzDale 04:00, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Heh, here it is: Ray transfer matrix analysis. —Ben FrantzDale 02:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)