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Simple ray diagram showing typical chief and marginal rays. In most areas of optics, and especially in microscopy, the numerical aperture of an optical system such as an objective lens is defined by
2007-12-03 13:58 User A1 580×200 (52643 bytes) [[SVG]] Illustration of the Numerical aperture for an Optic fibre. Interior of the fibre is causing coupled light to undergo Total internal reflection due to Snell's law. 2007-12-03 13:57 User A1 744×1052 (51885 bytes) Illustration of the [[Numerical aperture]] for an [[Optic fibre]]. Interior of ...
Diagram of decreasing apertures, that is, increasing f-numbers, in one-stop increments; each aperture has half the light-gathering area of the previous one.. An f-number is a measure of the light-gathering ability of an optical system such as a camera lens.
The numerical aperture of a Gaussian beam is defined to be NA = n sin θ, where n is the index of refraction of the medium through which the beam propagates. This means that the Rayleigh range is related to the numerical aperture by z R = n w 0 N A . {\displaystyle z_{\mathrm {R} }={\frac {nw_{0}}{\mathrm {NA} }}.}
Memorial in Jena, Germany to Ernst Karl Abbe, who approximated the diffraction limit of a microscope as = , where d is the resolvable feature size, λ is the wavelength of light, n is the index of refraction of the medium being imaged in, and θ (depicted as α in the inscription) is the half-angle subtended by the optical objective lens (representing the numerical aperture).
The numerical aperture of a multimode optical fiber is a function of the indices of refraction of the cladding and the core: Diagram showing how the light refracts at the core/cladding interface. With the angle of refraction being dependent upon the difference in index of refraction, n, of core and cladding.
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English: Better illustration of numerical aperture in the case of a thin lens, ... This W3C-invalid diagram was created with Adobe Illustrator.