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ECE3340J: Principles of Optics

Lecture 04
Outline

◼Mirrors
◼Prisms
◼Beamsplitter

2
Planar Mirror

◼Perfectimage
◼Applications?
◼Considerations of planar mirror

3
Retroreflector

[Link]

[Link]

4
Single-lens Reflex (SLR) Camera

[Link]

Why pentaprism?

5
Digital Light Processing

Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)

[Link]

6
Mirrors with Conic Surfaces

7
Spherical Mirrors
Derivations of the focal length…

8
Dispersing Prisms
n=1
α
δ
θt2
θi1 θi2
θt1

 = i1 + sin −1[(sin  )(n 2 − sin 2 i1 )1/ 2 − sin i1 cos  ] − 
Minimum deviation?
Small angle case ➔ δ = (n-1)α

9
Plane Parallel Plates
t

θi
θt
A
B
E
H

F D C
G
s
t n −1
s =t− = t
n n
n

10
Total Internal Reflection
n2 θt

n1 θi

n2
n1 sin  i = n2 sin  t  n1 sin  c = n2   c = sin −1
n1
Critical angle

11
Reflecting Prisms – Right-angle Prism

(Porro prism)

12
Reflecting Prisms – Dove Prism

13
Reflecting Prisms – Amici Prism (Roof prism)

14
Reflecting Prisms – Penta Prism

15
Reflecting Prisms – Rhomboid Prism

Periscope!

16
Reflecting Prisms – Leman-Springer Prism

erect image in telescope system

17
Reflecting Prisms – Corner-cube Prism
(Retroreflector)

[Link]

18
Application: Erecting System for Binoculars

[Link]

19
Prism vs. Mirror

◼Why don’t we use mirror instead of prism?

20
Beamsplitter

21
Summary

◼Spherical mirror

◼Total internal reflection (TIR)

◼Right-angle prism

◼Beamsplitter
22

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