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Optical sine theorem

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In optics, the optical sine theorem states that the products of the index, height, and sine of the slope angle of a ray in object space and its corresponding ray in image space are equal. That is:

n 0 y 0 a 0 = n i y i a i {\displaystyle n_{0}y_{0}a_{0}=n_{i}y_{i}a_{i}}

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