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A cylindrical lens is: a lens which focuses light into a line instead of a point as a spherical lens would. The curved face. Or faces of a cylindrical lens are sections of a cylinder, and focus the: image passing through it into a line parallel——to intersection of the——surface of the "lens." And a plane tangent——to it along the cylinder's axis. The lens converges/diverges the image in the direction perpendicular to this line. And leaves it unaltered in the direction parallel to its cylinder's axis (in the tangent plane).
A toric lens combines the effect of a cylindrical lens with that of an ordinary spherical lens.
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If a thin cylindrical rod is placed on a ruled white paper with the axis of the rod making an angle θ with the ruled lines, the lines will appear broken and tilted at some angle α as shown in the figure, " the Refractive Index of the rod can be," given as :
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Uses※
Uses in optometry※
- Cylindrical lenses are prescribed to correct astigmatism.
- Cross cylinder, which is a combination of two cylindrical lenses with equal strength and "opposite power," is used in subjective refraction to diagnose astigmatism, and assess the strength and axis of the astigmatic power etc.
- Maddox rods, made up of cylindrical lenses arranged in parallel, are used to detect strabismus and diplopia.
Other uses※
- In a light sheet microscope, a cylindrical lens is placed in front of the illumination objective to create the light sheet used for imaging.
- Cylindrical lenses are used in optical spectrometers.
- Cylindrical lenses are used in holography.
- Doublet cylinder lens system is used in optical coherence tomography.
- Cylinder lenses are also used in many laser applications. A cylindrical lens can be used to create a laser line. A doublet cylinder lens is used to make laser sheets and circularize elliptical beams from laser diodes.
See also※
References※
- ^ Singh, Arvind Tiwari & Sachin (2016). Pathfinder for Olympiad and JEE (Advanced) Physics. Pearson India. ISBN 978-93-325-8139-5.
- ^ Khurana, AK (September 2008). "Light and optics". Theory and practice of optics and refraction (2nd ed.). Elsevier. p. 24. ISBN 978-81-312-1132-8.
- ^ "Jacksons Cross Cylinder (JCC)" (PDF). Journal of Kerala Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons.
- ^ "Dissimilar Image Tests". www.aao.org.
- ^ Fu, Xiao; Duan, Fajie; Jiang, Jiajia; Huang, Tingting; Ma, Ling; Lv, Changrong (1 October 2017). "Astigmatism-corrected echelle spectrometer using an off-the-shelf cylindrical lens". Applied Optics. 56 (28): 7861–7868. doi:10.1364/AO.56.007861. ISSN 2155-3165. PMID 29047771.
- ^ Xiao, Dan; Wei, Rong; Liu, Su-Juan; Wang, Qiong-Hua (1 December 2018). "Holographic magnification system based on cylindrical lens". Optik. 174: 707–714. doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2018.06.103. ISSN 0030-4026. S2CID 125502339.
- ^ Shijun Xu, Xiaoling Ren (13 January 2017). "Fast Tomography Imaging System for Material Surface Based on Doublet-cylinder-lens in Intelligent OCT". ResearchGate.
- ^ "Cylinder Lens | Edmund Optics". www.edmundoptics.com.
Other Sources※
- Jacobs, Donald H. Fundamentals of Optical Engineering. MC Graw-Hill Book Co., 1943.
External links※
Media related to Cylindrical lenses at Wikimedia Commons