optical axis
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They also discovered that the optical vortices could be modified by adjusting the topological charge, which is essentially the number of windings around the optical axis.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
The rays originate from points that are not on the optical axis and they do not converge at one common focal point.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
Now when we cut our lens out of this blank, we are able to keep the optical axis parallel to the line of sight as it goes into our frame.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fovea centralis—the point of the retina on the optical axis of the eye—is a slight depression much thinner than the remainder of the retina and this is inhabited chiefly by cones.
From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew
The optical axis of a telescope, or an imaginary line passing through the centre of the tube.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
