$A$ point source of light is placed at the focus of a concave mirror. Consider only paraxial rays. The shapes of the wavefronts of incident and reflected lights respectively are

  • A
    spherical, spherical
  • B
    spherical, planar
  • C
    spherical, cylindrical
  • D
    planar, spherical

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