Various authors have presented the aberration function of an optical system as a power series expansion with respect to the ray coordinates in the exit pupil and the coordinates of the intersection point with the image field of the optical system. In practical applications, for reasons of efficiency and accuracy, an expansion with the aid of orthogonal polynomials is preferred for which, since ...

Abstract. The first order nonlinear ODE φ̇(t) + sinφ(t) = q(t), q(t) = B +A cosωt, where A, B, ω are real constants, is considered, the transformation converting it to a second order linear homogeneous ODE with polynoimial coefficients is found. The latter is identified as a particular case of the double confluent Heun equation. The series of algebraic constraints on the constant parameters is f...