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Typically a lens will heat up as light passes through it. No lens is perfectly transparent so some of the light energy will be reflected and some of it will be absorbed. The part that is absorbed will manifest as an increase in the temperature of the lens. The closer the lens is to being perfectly transparent to the wavelengths of the light passing through, the less it will heat up.

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