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What are caustics as they apply to optics?

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I've searched the web for caustics and optics, but mostly see pictures of them. They seem to have some positive use. In some fashion they seem to magnify. They seem to be somehow related to critical curves, whatever they are. Both seem to be helpful in gravitational lensing. How?

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