Abstract
The concept of treating lenses and other powered optical elements as operators acting on light-ray bundles, with these ray bundles being treated as vector fields, is introduced. A matrix method is developed with this vector field concept to analyze the behavior of optical systems. The method is especially useful for ophthalmic optics.
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