Thick Lens

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A thick lens is a lens whose axial thickness cannot be neglected when analyzing its optical behavior.

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A thick lens is a lens whose front-to-back thickness must be included to describe how it bends and focuses light accurately. Unlike the thin-lens approximation, thick-lens analysis accounts for the separation between its two refracting surfaces.

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  1. Hecht, E. (2017). Optics (5th Global ed., pp. 257–263). Pearson Education.