“…Particularly, the recent development of medical endoscope system employing Grin lens [8][9][10] and many other applications [11] have created urgency for one simple optical equivalent system to substitute for complex Grin lens, facilitating its optical analysis, especially the objectimaging relation. In this paper, one simple single-lens equivalent system for Grin lens in homogeneous medium, which is based on matrix optics, is proposed.…”