Rhomboid（Diamond/Rhombus) prisms are commonly used to displace a laser beam without changing its direction. In imaging applications, rhomboid prisms will displace the optical axis without inverting ...

Porro prisms are used for a 90° light path bend by using the hypotenuse face of the prism rather than the leg faces.They are similar to right angle prisms. This configuration produces a right-handed ...

A 3D shape with all straight edges and flat faces is a polyhedron. Other 3D shapes with least one curved surface are not polyhedra. A 3D shape with regular polygonal faces, meeting at equal angles, is ...

Newton’s experiment remains almost insultingly simple. Sunlight, a darkened room, a glass prism. The conclusion was unavoidable. Colour belonged to light itself. The prism merely made it visible.

Posts claiming a celestial "smiley face” will light up the night sky over Christmas aren't true. But the Christmas Tree ...

A transistor that operates with photons rather than electrons is often heralded as the next step in information processing, but optical technology must first prove itself to be a viable solution in ...

Some of the most sensitive methods of measuring magnetic fields use interactions of resonant light with atomic vapour. Recent developments in this vibrant field have led to improvements in sensitivity ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-INO) have achieved the first imaging of ...

Abstract: Risley prisms, as beam-steering components, find extensive applications in optics. A single Risley prism enables constant-angle deflection of incident light, while rotating multi-prism ...

Abstract: Omnidirectional images have a significantly broader field of view (FOV) compared to standard cameras. Various methods have been used to achieve an omnidirectional view. Ideally, this can be ...