The distance between the focus and the optical centre (O) is known as the focal length of the lens. but there will be 2 focal lenght which is focal length of the lens

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Two focal lengths are same in magnitude but sign convention is opposite i.e. one is right hand side of the lens and other is left hand side of the lens.

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