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Etendue (G=n2AΩ)

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Etendue measures the area and angular extent of a light bundle: G=∬n2cosudAdΩ, approximately n2AΩ for a narrow bundle. Ideal lossless specular geometrical optics conserves it, which constrains how optical instruments reformat a field.

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