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Light pipes are tubes or cylinders of solid material used to guide light a short distance. In electronics, plastic light pipes are used to guide light from LEDs on a circuit board to the user interface surface. In buildings, light pipes are used to transfer illumination from outside the building to where it is needed inside. [citation needed]
Powerful laser guide star system at the Paranal Observatory. The actual laser guide star is the small spot above the apparent end of the laser beam. A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light (called astronomical seeing).
Guides in the form of a hollow tube with a highly reflective inner surface have also been used as light pipes for illumination applications. The inner surfaces may be polished metal, or may be covered with a multilayer film that guides light by Bragg reflection (this is a special case of a photonic
The 3M company developed a system based on optical lighting film [36] and developed the 3M light pipe, [37] which is a light guide designed to distribute light uniformly over its length, with a thin film incorporating microscopic prisms, [26] which has been marketed in connection with artificial light sources, e.g. sulfur lamps.
Laser guidance is used by military to guide a missile or other projectile or vehicle to a target by means of a laser beam, either beam riding guidance or semi-active laser homing (SALH). [7] With this technique, a laser is kept pointed at the target and the laser radiation bounces off the target and is scattered in all directions (this is known ...
FGS/NIRISS ETU, 2016 FGS Test unit undergoes cryogenic testing, 2012 Infographic of JWST instruments and their observation ranges of light by wavelength. Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that combines a Fine Guidance Sensor and a science instrument, a near-infrared imager and a ...
Light redirected by these systems does not converge to a focal point or form an image, [1] hence the name (from an, without, and eidolon, image [2]). Anidolic lighting uses non-imaging mirrors, lenses, and light guides to capture exterior sunlight and direct it deeply into rooms, while also scattering rays to avoid glare.
This spectral region can contain about 10% of the total emitted light. [citation needed] Light intensity ranges from 20,000 to 500,000 cd/cm 2. An example is the "XBO lamp", which is an OSRAM trade name for a pure xenon short-arc lamp. [11] For some applications, such as endoscopy and dental technology, light guide systems are included.