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  2. Polarizer - Wikipedia

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    The Sénarmont prism is air spaced, unlike the Wollaston and Rochon prisms. These prisms truly split the beam into two fully polarized beams with perpendicular polarizations. The Nomarski prism is a variant of the Wollaston prism, which is widely used in differential interference contrast microscopy. Thin film polarizers

  3. Prism cover test - Wikipedia

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    The prism cover test ( PCT) is an objective measurement and the gold standard in measuring strabismus, i.e. ocular misalignment, or a deviation of the eye. [1] It is used by ophthalmologists and orthoptists in order to measure the vertical and horizontal deviation and includes both manifest and latent components. [1]

  4. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    Light from a green laser passing through two slits 0.4mm wide and 0.1mm apart. In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves and particles. This ambiguity is considered evidence for the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum ...

  5. Wollaston prism - Wikipedia

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    A Wollaston prism is an optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston, that manipulates polarized light. It separates light into two separate linearly polarized outgoing beams with orthogonal polarization. [1] The two beams will be polarized according to the optical axis of the two right angle prisms. The Wollaston prism consists of two ...

  6. Prism (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Its prism has 2n vertices, 3n edges, and 2 + n faces. Take a polyhedron with V vertices, E edges, and F faces. Its prism has 2V vertices, 2E + V edges, 2F + E faces, and 2 + F cells. Take a polychoron with V vertices, E edges, F faces, and C cells. Its prism has 2V vertices, 2E + V edges, 2F + E faces, 2C + F cells, and 2 + C hypercells ...

  7. Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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    In optics, chromatic aberration ( CA ), also called chromatic distortion and spherochromatism, is a failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same point. [1] It is caused by dispersion: the refractive index of the lens elements varies with the wavelength of light. The refractive index of most transparent materials decreases with increasing ...

  8. Nicol prism - Wikipedia

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    Schematic representation of the propagation of light in a Nicol prism showing the splitting of unpolarized light into ordinary and extraordinary polarized rays. A Nicol prism is a type of polarizer. It is an optical device made from calcite crystal used to convert ordinary light into plane polarized light.

  9. Dispersion (optics) - Wikipedia

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    In a dispersive prism, material dispersion (a wavelength -dependent refractive index) causes different colors to refract at different angles, splitting white light into a spectrum. A compact fluorescent lamp seen through an Amici prism.

  10. Multifocal plane microscopy - Wikipedia

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    One example is by using a customized image splitting prism, which is capable of capturing up to 8 focal planes using only two cameras. Better yet, standard off-the-shelf partial beamsplitters can be used to construct a so-called z-splitter prism that allows simultaneous imaging of 9 individual focal planes using a single camera.

  11. Multiple-prism dispersion theory - Wikipedia

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    If the single prism is a right-angled prism with the beam exiting normal to the output face, that is , equal to zero, this equation reduces to ( ∂ ϕ 2 , 1 / ∂ λ ) = t a n ψ 1 , 1 ( ∂ n 1 / ∂ λ ) {\displaystyle (\partial \phi _{2,1}/\partial \lambda )=tan\psi _{1,1}(\partial n_{1}/\partial \lambda )}