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Skew-Ray Tracing at Boundary Surfaces

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Geometrical optics, or ray optics, describes light propagation in terms of “rays”. The “ray” is the tool that is used to predict the path of light [1].

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Lin, P.D. (2014). Skew-Ray Tracing at Boundary Surfaces. In: New Computation Methods for Geometrical Optics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 178. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-79-6_2

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