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A mode index lens and a lens formed by a spherical depression in the substrate of the waveguide have opposite aberrations and can be combined in an element with considerably reduced aberrations. Only small differences in the mode index are required for the optimum combination.
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Spiller et al. (1974) studied this question.
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