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What is the geometrical shape of the wavefront when a plane wave passes through a convex lens?

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The wavefront of a wave is defined as the surface at which the phase of the wave remains constant or does not vary with time.
As the convex lens is a converging lens thus the shape of the refracted wavefront through convex lens will be a converging spherical wavefront.

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