We have discovered an aplanatic design that contributes to a celebrated problem in classical optics in a novel way. In so doing new devices are envisioned with applications to illumination, concentration, and imaging.

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Benítez, P.
Born, M.
Bortz, J. C.
Burge, J. H.
Gontcharov, A. V.
Korsch, D.
Luneburg, R. K.
Lynden-Bell, D.
Mertz, L. N.
Miñano, J. C.
Puryayev, D. T.
Schawarzchild, K.
Shatz, N.
Welford, W. T.
Willstrop, R. V.
Winston, R.
Wolf, E.
Zhao, C.

J. Opt. Soc. Am. A

• C. Zhao and J. H. Burge, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 2467 (2002). [CrossRef]

Mitt. Sternw. Gottingen

• K. Schawarzchild, Mitt. Sternw. Gottingen , 10, 11 (1905).

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

• D. Lynden-Bell, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 334, 787 (2002). [CrossRef]
• R. V. Willstrop and D. Lynden-Bell, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 342, 33 (2003). [CrossRef]

Opt. Eng.

• D. T. Puryayev and A. V. Gontcharov, Opt. Eng. 37, 2334 (1998). [CrossRef]

Other

• M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Macmillan, 1964).
• R. Winston, J. C. Miñano, and P. Benítez, with contributions by N. Shatz and J. C. Bortz, Nonimaging Optics (Elsevier Academic, 2005).
• W. T. Welford, Aberrations of the Symmetrical Optical System (Academic, 1974).
• R. K. Luneburg, Mathematical Theory of Optics (U. of California Press, 1964).
• D. Korsch, Reflective Optics (Academic, 1991).
• L. N. Mertz, Excursions in Astronomical Optics (Springer, 1996). [CrossRef]

2003, Willstrop, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
2002, Zhao, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A
2002, Lynden-Bell, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.
1998, Puryayev, Opt. Eng.
1905, Schawarzchild, Mitt. Sternw. Gottingen

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