General Tutorials
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Aberrations
A perfect imaging system can image a point into a point. However, any imaging system has some flaws which degrade the image quality, and therefore ...
Variable Power Systems
Optical zoom is a feature of many cameras and binoculars that allows one to zoom in on a subject without losing image quality. Optical zoom works ...
Telescope
Telescopes are instruments used to observe and study celestial objects such as stars, planets, galaxies, and nebulae. The word telescope ...
Lenses and Imaging
Lenses are devices made from glass or any other transparent material, where their surfaces have spherical curvature. Lenses have been around ...
Anamorphic Systems
Optical anamorphic systems are used to compress or expand the aspect ratio of images in photography and filmmaking. Anamorphic lenses ...
Prisms
A prism is a transparent solid object with flat, polished surfaces that refract light. It is a geometric shape typically comprised of two parallel and ...
Spectral Measurements
Light is an electromagnetic wave. The wave nature of light was revealed by the combined work of Poisson, Fresnel, and Maxwell during the 19th ...
Alignment
When we transfer an optical setup from the drawing board into the optical table, we need to align optical elements, such as sources ...
Online Lab Manual
You will use a free online software called 3DOPTIX . This program was chosen because it allows you to choose the optical components you need ...
Ray Optics Simulation
Enhance productivity with 3DOptix, Optical design and Simulation software Ray Optics describes light propagation in terms of “rays”...
Optical Design Software
Optical Design software provides an optical designer with a set of tools to evaluate and test the performance of an optical system or apparatus.
Rainbow
Rainbows are a meteorological phenomenon, that occurs when light is refracted or bent as it passes through water droplets in the atmosphere ...
