-An English physicist ‘Henry Kater’ was the inventor of the floating collimator.
-A collimator is a device that narrows a beam of particles or waves. To “narrow” can mean either to cause the directions of motion to become more aligned in a specific direction (i.e., collimated or parallel) or to cause the spatial cross section of the beam to become smaller.
-Collimators may be used with laser diodes and CO2 cutting lasers. Proper collimation of a laser source with long enough coherence length can be verified with a shearing interferometer.
A device for producing a parallel beam of rays or radiation.
A small fixed telescope used for adjusting the line of sight of an astronomical telescope.
-An English physicist ‘Henry Kater’ was the inventor of the floating collimator.
-A collimator is a device that narrows a beam of particles or waves. To “narrow” can mean either to cause the directions of motion to become more aligned in a specific direction (i.e., collimated or parallel) or to cause the spatial cross section of the beam to become smaller.
-Collimators may be used with laser diodes and CO2 cutting lasers. Proper collimation of a laser source with long enough coherence length can be verified with a shearing interferometer.
A device for producing a parallel beam of rays or radiation.
A small fixed telescope used for adjusting the line of sight of an astronomical telescope.