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* A spherical mirror is not stigmatic: The rays (or their extensions) * A spherical mirror is not stigmatic: The rays (or their extensions)
* coming from an object point generally do not converge towards an image * coming from an object point generally do not converge towards an image
* point (see Fig. 2.) * point (see Fig. 2.)
*
![](spherical-mirror-rays-stigmatism-1000-1.jpg)
Fig. 2. Non stigmatism of a convexe mirror.
![](spherical-mirror-rays-stigmatism-1000-2.jpg)
Fig. 3. But when we limit the aperture of the mirror,
![](spherical-mirror-rays-stigmatism-1000-3.jpg)
Fig. 4 . and limit the conditions of use to small angles of incidence and
refraction are small, then a point image can be defined : the mirror becomes
quasi-stigmatic.
* Spherical mirrors with a limited aperture (see Fig. 3.) and used so that
angles of incense and emergence remain small (see Fig. 4.), become quasi-stigmatic.
##### Gauss conditions / paraxial approximation and quasi-stigmatism
* When spherical refracting surfaces are used under the following conditions, named **Gauss conditions** :<br>
\- The *angles of incidence and refraction are small*<br>
(the rays are slightly inclined on the optical axis, and intercept the spherical surface in the
vicinity of its vertex),<br>
then the spherical refracting surfaces can be considered *quasi- stigmatic*, and therefore they
*can be used to build optical images*.
* Mathematically, when an angle $`\alpha`$ is small ($`\alpha < or \approx 10 ^\circ`$), the following
approximations can be made :<br>
$`sin(\alpha) \approx tan (\alpha) \approx \alpha`$ (rad), et $`cos(\alpha) \approx 1`$.
* Geometrical optics limited to Gaussian conditions is called **Gaussian optical** or **paraxial optics**.
#### The thin spherical mirror (paraxial optics)

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