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#### Gauss conditions / paraxial approximation and quasi-stigmatism
When spherical refracting surfaces are used under the following conditions, named **Gauss conditions** :<br>
\- All *incident rays lie close to the optical axis*<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>

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