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    Fresnel diffraction Elliptical polarization Fresnel (unit of frequency) Fresnel–Arago laws Fresnel equations Fresnel imager Fresnel integral Fresnel lantern...
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    The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a...
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    spot, Poisson spot, or Fresnel spot is a bright point that appears at the center of a circular object's shadow due to Fresnel diffraction. This spot played...
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  • Huygens–Fresnel principle is derived by the Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction formula. Kirchhoff's integral theorem, sometimes referred to as the Fresnel–Kirchhoff...
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    Euler spiral (redirect from Fresnel spiral)
    is also referred to as a clothoid or Cornu spiral. The behavior of Fresnel integrals can be illustrated by an Euler spiral, a connection first made by...
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    A Fresnel rhomb is an optical prism that introduces a 90° phase difference between two perpendicular components of polarization, by means of two total...
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    Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, p. 309. De Witte, 1959, p. 294, col. 2. Cf. Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, p. 305. Cf. Fresnel, 1827, tr. Hobson, p. 296. De Witte...
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  • In mathematics, a Böhmer integral is an integral introduced by Böhmer (1939) generalizing the Fresnel integrals. There are two versions, given by C ⁡ (...
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  • de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale 2 (1902): 348–367. "Sur les intégrales de Fresnel." Nouvelles annales de mathématiques...
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    (applicable to the far field), the Fresnel diffraction approximation (applicable to the near field) and the Feynman path integral formulation. Most configurations...
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    : 273–275  Electronics portal Physics portal Algebra of physical space Fresnel equations Gravitoelectromagnetism Interface conditions for electromagnetic...
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  • Thumbnail for Fizeau experiment
    His results seemingly supported the partial aether-drag hypothesis of Fresnel, a situation that was disconcerting to most physicists. Over half a century...
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    Double-slit experiment (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    behaviour of light can be modelled using classical wave theory. The Huygens–Fresnel principle is one such model; it states that each point on a wavefront generates...
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    {3}{2}},-x^{2}\right).} It has a simple expression in terms of the Fresnel integral.[further explanation needed] In terms of the regularized gamma function...
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    N_{\text{F}}=(N-1)^{2}} . This result is obtained via exact evaluation of Fresnel-Kirchhoff integral in the near field at distance z T = 2 a 2 λ {\textstyle z_{\text{T}}={\frac...
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  • functions, including the exponential (Ei), logarithmic integral (Li or li) and Fresnel (S and C) integrals. the error function, e r f ( x ) = 2 π ∫ 0 x e −...
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  • particle-like rays of geometrical optics with the wavefronts of Huygens–Fresnel principle. [Maupertuis] ... thus pointed to that remarkable analogy between...
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  • the diffracting object and (in the near field region) is given by the Fresnel diffraction equation. The equation was named in honor of Joseph von Fraunhofer...
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    1803.) Fresnel, Augustin-Jean (1816), "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière" ("Memoir on the diffraction of light"), Annales de Chimie et de Physique...
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    from 1990, when SEGS was completed, until 2006, when the Compact linear Fresnel reflector system at Liddell Power Station in Australia was built. Few other...
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    Arago spot in his attempt to disprove the wave theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Poisson was born in Pithiviers, Loiret district in France, the son of...
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  • a mathematical discipline focused on limits, continuity, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. Many elements of calculus appeared in ancient Greece...
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    Pinhole camera (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    instead of the more usual 1.22. In the region of near-field diffraction (or Fresnel diffraction), the pinhole focuses the light slightly, and the resolution...
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    Rolleiflex 6000 System (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    its lenses and accessories, adding an interchangeable film back with an integral dark slide. Like the SLX, the 6000 series cameras incorporate electronic...
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    lamps and parabolic reflectors had been specified as the Fresnel lens, created by Augustin Fresnel of France in 1822 was considered very costly at that time...
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  • Linear canonical transformation (category Integral transforms)
    Fourier, fractional Fourier, Laplace, Gauss–Weierstrass, Bargmann and the Fresnel transforms as particular cases. The name "linear canonical transformation"...
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    principle of least action on light particles. However in 1815, Augustin-Jean Fresnel presented a new a wave theory for diffraction to a commission of the French...
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    France (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    century saw spectacular scientific developments in France, with Augustin Fresnel founding modern optics, Sadi Carnot laying the foundations of thermodynamics...
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    behind the image printed on the back of the lens. Fresnel lens, a different 'flat' lens technology Integral imaging Microlens "Lenticular, how it works"....
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  • (ed.). "Spherical harmonic lattice sums for gratings" (PDF). Institut Fresnel, Universite d'Aix-Marseille 6. Gratings: theory and numeric applications...
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