Topogon lens

Topogon lens

[′täp·ə‚gän ¦lenz]

(optics)

A periscopic lens with supplementary thick menisci to permit the correction of aperture aberrations for a moderate aperture and a large field; one or two plane-parallel plates are sometimes added to correct distortion.

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