spherical mirror

collocation in English

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spherical
adjective
uk
/ˈsfer.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈsfer.ɪ.kəl/
round, like ...
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mirror
noun
uk
/ˈmɪr.ər/us
/ˈmɪr.ɚ/
a piece of glass with a shiny, metal-covered back that reflects light, producing an image of whatever is in front ...
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Asphericalmirrorcollects and focuses the light onto the target spot perpendicular to the horizontal mounting plate.
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The video transformations have been designed to accentuate and amplify the optical effects of thesphericalmirror.
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A normal incidencesphericalmirrorand a 458 flat mirror controlled by a stepper motor are used to align the beam under vacuum to the instrument.
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Thesphericalmirrorinverses the image.
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Future development is planned to give the viewer control over convolution settings to simulate a selection of dimensions of thesphericalmirror.
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The optical effect in thesphericalmirrorproduced real images resembling that of a hologram.
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The two surfaces of the reflector have different radii to correct the aberration of thesphericalmirror.
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The inversion of each function will yield another harmonic function which has singularities which are the images of the original singularities in asphericalmirror.
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In that case, the sphere surface behaves as a concavesphericalmirrorwith the required curvature for retroreflection.
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A fixedsphericalmirrorfocuses the light in the same place independent of the sun's position.
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If the combination looks like asphericalmirrorto the interferometer, then both the null corrector and the hologram are shown to be correct.
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He solved the problem of finding the locus of points on asphericalmirrorfrom which light will be reflected to an observer.
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The ray matrix of asphericalmirroris shown here for the concave reflecting surface of asphericalmirror.
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Paul's key insight is that the secondary can then be converted back to asphericalmirror.
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However, the ideal point image can not be obtained because of the aberration of the spherical mirrors.
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Following is the basic construction, adapted to the model we have used in our analysis of reflection from concave spherical mirrors.
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Off-axis aberration compensation of focusing with spherical mirrors using deformable mirrors.
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The confocal laser cavity consisted of asphericalmirrorat the output end with a flat mirror at the center of curvature at the other end.
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It contains two spherical mirrors perpendicular to each other.
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Concave spherical mirrors present a complex of problems that convex spherical mirrors do not.
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