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optical surface

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optical surface [′äp·tə·kəl ′sər·fəs]
(optics)
An interface between two media, such as between air and glass, which is used to reflect or refract light.


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At synchrotron laboratories the beamlines are often equipped with devices to enable cleaning of the optical surfaces with oxygen plasmas (2).
Beginning with a section on light propagation, which tackles the difficult question of defining light, chapters progress to cover reflections and refractions at optical surfaces, image formation, mirrors and prisms, curved optical surfaces, thin lenses, thick lenses, mirrors, optical apertures, paraxial ray tracing, aberrations in optical systems and real ray tracing.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Our process uses MRF to polish optical surfaces to extreme precision," Steve Hogan, QED alliance manager, said, "where the form error on a surface of 8" in diameter is typically less than one- to two-millionths of an inch.
 
 
 
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