Posted by
shunpu on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:23:18 PM
Prism in (
telescopes) optical
design is inevitable, if not to be able to see is legislation (rather
than lying flat or inverted) of the image, is not our birthright is
being used to observe the features of legislation, the Single
binoculars and telescope viewing simply does not need to prism.
Test done with chicken (I remember that this test was also done their
own), the chicken can be put on special glasses as it seems the world
is upside down. After the staggering along for a few days later, most
of them adapt quickly to the inverted world behavior without causing
any inconvenience caused, and no different from the normal chicken. If
the chicken can be inverted to adapt to this world, then we can be
human, and many are accustomed to the use of astronomical telescopes
amateur astronomers have demonstrated a similar ability, they are
accustomed to using only the zenith telescope mirror, so that the
telescope is about upside down (from top to bottom is legislation).
As for the rest of the majority of people, including you and me
included, or are more willing to look at the features of legislation,
if not to the brain to the correct completion of the scene, then they
would have to use other methods, which is used in modern prism
binoculars like the system to the prism.
Prism with the
capacity to do because it can "bend" or, more scientifically speaking,
in a number of surface reflection of light between. When light from a
specific perspective of glass (optical density medium) of shooting at
the air (Shu-ray media), there will be some reflection back, and the
rest of the shoot it out. To understand this, imagine that we feel the
window to see the house. The ratio of reflected light depends on the
angle of incidence and the refractive index of glass. Refractive index
of glass is used to describe the ability of the refraction of light
(equal to the speed of light vacuum speed of light than glass), it is
closely related to the density of glass. Prism of the more interesting
features is a large incident angle to a certain degree of time (this
angle can be calculated from the refractive index of glass), shooting
at the glass from the glass - the air interface will be full of light
reflected back to the prism itself, This is called total reflection,
perfect internal reflection.
Application of total reflection
prism is not limited to, optical catheter, optical fiber is an
important application of it
Porro prism system in the
theory as to be very effective, because four reflector could have a
total reflection, there is no loss of light
But in fact,
cheap Porro prism binoculars Bk7 prism used to produce the refractive
index close to the lower limit of total reflection, so a good
reflection prism center, but a small portion of the edge can not have a
total reflection of light and the "leak" out. If you observe the pupil
of the eye spot (up telescopes, far away from where they were observed
in the eyepiece??) will find that the use of the telescope Bk7 prism
edge of the existence of a pupil of the eye shadow edge spot.
The use of a higher refractive index glass can fix this problem, use
Bak4 glass prism to the general system efficiency can be achieved as
the maximum at the same level, 90-95% light transmission rate.
In addition the general characteristics of the prism there is another,
as the light produced a "Z"-shaped turn, the general appearance of a
prism binoculars tend to become this shape. Incident and exit pupil of
the eye pupil is not a straight line, the general incidence Hitomi
(objective) than the exit pupil (eyepiece) to separate a lot more).
Prism telescope used to observe the general change of perspective we
are used to sense and a sense of stereology. On the one hand, from the
sense of being compressed, on the other hand, was increased
three-dimensional sense. Similarly, the general prism telescope, we
will also affect the size and distance of objects in the telescope to
determine the very early development will have a roof prism, which
allows the incident light and the radio to keep in a straight line. It
is a straight tube from the flu, as the sense of body size is also a
sense closer to the naked eye some.
(On the advantages of
roof prism will be another text later, the bird-watching enthusiasts in
the roof is a major reason why the prevalence of a mirror above the
general roof telescope imaging telescope and a sense of different size.
Birds in the roof prism binoculars look inside it is larger, in fact,
is not really bigger, if the general measurement of an 8-fold and an
8-fold by imaging roof, you will find the same size. But we do it is
very difficult to accept his brain to see the actual is the same as
large objects. I have a friend who studied this phenomenon
quantitatively, he felt that the size of the objects and the distance
between the contact lens again. In this regard, the reverse Porro prism
binoculars, that is, objective distance from the eyes than people would
also like to near the telescope, a manifestation of this phenomenon is
particularly prominent)
Roof prism It is worth noting that
there are some other aspects, in the most common roof prism: prism
Schmidt other Chinese, one interface can not have total reflection, the
majority of light will shoot it out rather than reflection. Therefore,
we must put this into a mirror-plated reflector. A thin metal
reflective layer can have a reflective light. Began to use silver and
aluminum until the beginning of mass production (the benefits of
aluminum is not as fast as silver oxide and the lower reflectivity).
Most high-level roof prism binoculars back silver coating because of
its higher reflectivity for Nitrogen sealed telescope, silver oxide is
difficult.
Unfortunately, even if it is the best there is
no silver reflective film ATR high efficiency, lost some of the light.
Aluminum prism optical losses can reach 15% Until recently, the
brightness of roof prism binoculars and the community in general still
can not resist the comparison.
In addition, when light from
the specular reflection back to the time, the phase change. We can show
a bunch of light as a shock wave in all directions, when the specular
reflection from the back part of it will be polarized in the horizontal
direction of the shock wave energy will be higher. Part of energy
(brightness) and a part of information (resolution) is lost. As part of
the two polarized beams of light interfere with each other when
meeting, such losses may be even greater.
If we do not take any
measures, then the roof prism binoculars and telescopes with the
general level than would be some dark, some imaging software. Mentioned
earlier, the bird-watching more like to use roof prism binoculars even
its outline nearly imaging because it is a sense of perspective and a
sense of better operation, so the complexity of more expensive roof
prism binoculars have been designed.