In optical engineering, an objective is an optical element that gathers light from an object being observed and focuses the light rays from it to produce...
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Look up objective or objectivé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Objective may refer to: Objective (optics), an element in a camera or microscope The...
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Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
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Diffraction-limited system (redirect from Diffraction-Limited Optics)
In optics, any optical instrument or system – a microscope, telescope, or camera – has a principal limit to its resolution due to the physics of diffraction...
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Voigtländer (section Photography optics and cameras)
producing the Petzval objective lens. From 1839, the year, when the invention of photography was being published, came objective optics and from 1840 complete...
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Dioptrics (redirect from Dioptric objective)
Dioptrics is the branch of optics dealing with refraction, especially by lenses. In contrast, the branch dealing with mirrors is known as catoptrics. Telescopes...
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Numerical aperture (category Optics)
between different areas of optics. Numerical aperture is commonly used in microscopy to describe the acceptance cone of an objective (and hence its light-gathering...
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Optical fiber (redirect from Fiber optics)
concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. The term was coined by Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany...
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optical waveguides can be described using the concepts of geometrical or ray optics, as illustrated in the diagram. Light passing into a medium with higher...
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Angular resolution (redirect from Resolving power (optics))
thereby making it a major determinant of image resolution. It is used in optics applied to light waves, in antenna theory applied to radio waves, and in...
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