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    In optics, a conjugate plane or conjugate focal plane of a given plane P, is the plane P′ such that points on P are imaged on P′. If an object is moved...
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  • the two focal points and either the principal points or the nodal points. The only ideal system that has been achieved in practice is a plane mirror,...
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  • Conjugation (redirect from Conjugate)
    change simultaneously Conjugate quantities, observables that are linked by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle Conjugate focal plane, in optics Charge conjugation...
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  • particular it allows observation of the back focal plane of the objective lens and its conjugated focal planes. The phase telescope/Bertrand lens is inserted...
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    projective harmonic conjugate of the point of intersection of AB and the absolute line, with respect to A and B. A conic in a projective plane that contains...
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    image plane. In other words, the circles of confusion are reduced or increasing the DOF. For a given size of the subject's image in the focal plane, the...
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  • the term confocal arises from the presence of a diaphragm in the conjugated focal plane (confocal) that is usually absent in multiphoton microscopes due...
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  • of conjugate image planes; the light source image planes and the specimen image planes. Alignment of optical components on the specimen image plane is...
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    1 and the plane with equation nxx + nyy + nzz = d, which have an ellipse in common. Wanted: Three vectors f0 (center) and f1, f2 (conjugate vectors),...
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  • plane can be displaced while a single object plane remains on it with acceptably sharp focus;[1][2][clarify] the second is the image-side conjugate of...
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    the focal plane. Confocal microscopy uses a scanning point or points of light to illuminate the sample. In conjunction with a pinhole at a conjugate focal...
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    ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant...
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    the plane is a tangent plane. an ellipse or empty, otherwise. On the axis of a circular paraboloid, there is a point called the focus (or focal point)...
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    refractive index creates two conjugate foci outside the lens. The solution takes a simple and explicit form if one focal point lies at infinity, and the...
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  • order to focus on some other plane besides the front focal plane of the objective, say, the plane whose conjugated plane is f ′ = α f {\displaystyle f'=\alpha...
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    phase-conjugate beam, Ξ4. Its direction is given by k4 = k1 + k2 − k3, and so if the two pump beams are counterpropagating (k1 = −k2), then the conjugate and...
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  • plane waves. Each paraxial plane wave component of the field in the front focal plane appears as a point spread function spot in the back focal plane...
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    In mathematics, a hyperbola is a type of smooth curve lying in a plane, defined by its geometric properties or by equations for which it is the solution...
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    the exit pupil usually is unknown to the user of a lens, the rear conjugate focal distance is used instead; the resultant theoretical error so introduced...
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  • section to the viewing screen. The viewing screen is located a conjugate distance from the plane of the schliere. Schlieren flow visualization is based on...
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    large, precisely focused lens that detects illuminated objects in its focal plane. This allows aiming without a retroreflector for short ranges. Retroreflectors...
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  • intersection of a cone with a plane. conjugate 1.  A conjugate point is an acnode. (Salmon 1879, p.23) 2.   A conjugate point is a point lying on the...
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    PJ are tangent to C. When C is a real curve, only the intersections of conjugate pairs are real, so there are m in a real foci and m2 − m imaginary foci...
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  • correctly, this matrix method will properly describe the positions of focal planes and magnifications, however aberrations still need to be evaluated using...
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  • are filtered out by the means of an annulus placed in a plane conjugated with the back focal plane of the objective (Fourier domain). Finally, to obtain...
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  • distance from the diffracting object, and also when it is viewed at the focal plane of an imaging lens. The equation was named in honour of Joseph von Fraunhofer...
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  • Azores. For these earthquakes, scientists had determined that the conjugate nodal plane was responsible, seeing shearing in the right-lateral (dextral)...
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    of small lenses (lenslets) in a pupil plane conjugate to the eye's pupil, and a CCD chip at the back focal plane of the lenslets. The lenslets cause spots...
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  • capable of releasing multiple protons, the conjugate base of an acid may itself be acidic. Conjugate base A conjugate acid, within the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base...
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  • distances that share a conjugate relationship. The only exception is the use of F and F′ to indicate respectively object and image space focal points (which are...
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