Abstract

An analytical derivation of Zernike aberration coefficients is presented, starting from the Seidel and higher-order power-series aberration coefficients. An azimuth symmetrical aberration function has been used. The first 155 nonvanishing terms of the conversion matrix are also given in rational form.

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