Solution

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At fixed incidence angle, differentiation of the grating equation gives . Near the camera axis, the focal-plane displacement is , so the local grating dispersion is
It has units of distance per unit wavelength. If the camera axis is at and the flat focal-plane coordinate is retained exactly as , then
The boxed expression is the local value at the optical axis.

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