Fermat's principle states that the actual ray makes the travel time stationary under small variations of its path with endpoints fixed. Equivalently, for a stationary medium it makes the optical path length stationary. “Stationary” allows minima, maxima, or other stationary paths; it does not require a strict minimum in every optical system.

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