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  2. Fresnel lens - Wikipedia

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    In some lenses, the curved surfaces are replaced with flat surfaces, with a different angle in each section. Such a lens can be regarded as an array of prisms arranged in a circular fashion with steeper prisms on the edges and a flat or slightly convex center. In the first (and largest) Fresnel lenses, each section was actually a separate prism.

  3. Crown glass (optics) - Wikipedia

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    Other additives used in crown glasses include zinc oxide, phosphorus pentoxide, barium oxide, fluorite and lanthanum oxide. The crown/flint distinction is so important to optical glass technology that many glass names, notably Schott glasses, incorporate it. A K in a Schott name indicates a crown glass (Krone in German).

  4. Periscope - Wikipedia

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    Principle of the periscope. The periscope on the left uses mirrors whereas the right uses prisms. a Mirrors b Prisms c Observer's eye Principle of the lens periscope. The two periscopes differ in the way they erect the image. The left one uses an erecting prism whereas the right uses an erecting lens and a second image plane. a Objective lens b ...

  5. Glasses - Wikipedia

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    Glasses, also known as eyeglasses and spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces that rest over the ears.

  6. Chicken eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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    Using chicken eyeglasses was still practiced in 1973, evidenced by Illinois' The Hawk-Eye newspaper that a farmer had 8,000 chickens fitted with the rose-colored variety. [20] One inventor of a form of the glasses proposed legislation in Kansas to require all chickens in the state to be fitted with glasses, but his campaign was unsuccessful. [21]

  7. Dispersion (optics) - Wikipedia

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    The variation of refractive index vs. vacuum wavelength for various glasses. The wavelengths of visible light are shaded in grey. Influences of selected glass component additions on the mean dispersion of a specific base glass ( n F valid for λ = 486 nm (blue), n C valid for λ = 656 nm (red)) [ 3 ]

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