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University of Rochester

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Using a new step-by-step method developed by Aaron Bauer, a senior research engineer at the University of Rochester's Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), these eight different designs for a three-mirror reflective imager were ranked by their potential to be corrected using freeform optics, with Tier 1 having the greatest potential.

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(University of Rochester illustration / courtesy Jannick Rolland)

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