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There is one Fresnel-like lens that has not yet caught the
imagination of engineers who specify such things.
This application *does* require precision at the wavelength
level.
It's the hologram lens.
John Denker supposes that Fresnel lenses are figured to within a
wavelength of light or fraction thereof. That is not the case.
M. Fresnel invented these devices to collimate lighthouse beacons,
not to make high resolution optical images, and they don't.
For a plastic lens this means it can be formed from sheet stock.