Zernike spherical mode

ID: zernike-spherical-mode

Zernike spherical mode by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-14
The unnormalized rotationally symmetric mode is . It describes balanced primary spherical aberration. The lower-degree terms make it orthogonal to constant piston and quadratic defocus under the disk area measure: direct integration gives and .

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