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  2. Porro prism - Wikipedia

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    Double Porro prism or Porro 1 optical system. Porro prisms are most often used in pairs, forming a double Porro prism. A second prism rotated 90° with respect to the first, is placed such that light will traverse both prisms. The net effect of the prism system is a beam parallel to but displaced from its original direction, with the image ...

  3. Phoropter - Wikipedia

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    The eye care professional then changes lenses and other settings, while asking the patient for subjective feedback on which settings gave the best vision. The patient's habitual prescription or an automated refractor may be used to provide initial settings for the phoropter.

  4. Bifocals - Wikipedia

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    Bifocals. A bifocal lens with areas of differing magnification. Bifocals with separate lenses. In this case, the Swedish ethnologist Jan-Öjvind Swahn [ sv]. Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism .

  5. Pros & Cons (comic strip) - Wikipedia

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    Pros & Cons is a comic strip about a lawyer, a psychiatrist and a police officer created by Glasgow –based artist Kieran Meehan. It was known as A Lawyer, A Doctor & A Cop before July 7, 2008, when it was renamed in an effort to make the title easier to remember.

  6. Barlow lens - Wikipedia

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    Barlow lens. The Barlow lens, named after Peter Barlow, is a diverging lens which, used in series with other optics in an optical system, increases the effective focal length of an optical system as perceived by all components that are after it in the system. The practical result is that inserting a Barlow lens magnifies the image.

  7. 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 .