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Zone plate

A zone plate is a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character. Unlike lenses or curved mirrors, zone plates use diffraction instead of refraction or reflection. Based on analysis by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, they are sometimes called Fresnel zone plates in his honor. The zone plate's focusing ability is an extension…

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Zone plate

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Edges33
Triples42
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.058824
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Zone plate

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related to External links · 11
Zone plate → Archived, Arndt Last, Magnetic Soft X-ray, May, New Scientist, Retrieved, Telescope, Wayback MachineExamples, Wayback MachineWhiz Kid Technomagic, X-ray, Zone Plate Designer Archived
related to Photography · 7
Zone plate → Common, DSLR, ISO, One, The, This, Zone
related to Physics · 7
Zone plate → Likewise, Other, The, There, Wave, X-rays, Zone
related to Continuous zone plates · 3
Zone plate → For, If, This
related to Reflection · 3
Zone plate → Fresnel, It, This
related to Design and manufacture · 2
Zone plate → To, When
related to Lenses · 2
Zone plate → Fresnel, Zone
is a · 1
Zone plate → device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character
related to Gunsights · 1
Zone plate → Zone
related to Software testing · 1
Zone plate → Image

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zone plate plates focus light zones used opaque transparent fresnel diffraction lens image displaystyle frac lenses pinhole also many materials

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Zone plateis adevice used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character0.90text
side lobesinstance ofThis reference phase can be chosen to optimize secondary properties0.80text
sound waves andinstance ofwhich means they can also be used to filter out unwanted wavelengths while focusing the light of interest.Other waves0.80text
due to quantum mechanicsinstance ofwhich means they can also be used to filter out unwanted wavelengths while focusing the light of interest.Other waves0.80text
matter waves can be focused in the same wayinstance ofwhich means they can also be used to filter out unwanted wavelengths while focusing the light of interest.Other waves0.80text
Zone platerelated to Continuous zone platesIf0.60section
Zone platerelated to Continuous zone platesThis0.60section
Zone platerelated to Continuous zone platesFor0.60section
Zone platerelated to Design and manufactureTo0.60section
Zone platerelated to Design and manufactureWhen0.60section
Zone platerelated to External linksMagnetic Soft X-ray0.60section
Zone platerelated to External linksArchived0.60section

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