optical axis in a sentence

Examples

1. The tripod mounting socket is aligned with the optical axis and the battery can be replaced without removing the grip.
2. We cannot represent vector E as superposition of one vector perpendicular and the second vector parallel to optical axis of crystal.
3. Rotational symmetry allows the system to be analyzed by considering only rays confined to a single transverse plane containing the optical axis.
4. The optical axis is an imaginary line that defines the path along which light propagates through the system, up to first approximation.
5. The orthocenter of the triangle with vertices in the three vanishing points is the intersection of the optical axis and the image plane.
6. Ideally aerial photographs are taken so the optical axis of the camera is perfectly perpendicular to the ground surface thereby creating a vertical photograph.
7. The point where they cross the optical axis is sometimes misleadingly called the "'optical centre "'of the lens.
8. However, even an expensive star diagonal will deliver poor performance if it is not in alignment with the optical axis of the telescope.
9. In 1907 the two discovered the Cotton-Mouton effect, an intense magnetic birefringence with optical axis perpendicular to the magnetic field lines.
10. This can be done by applying a magnetic field of some specific radial direction and strength perpendicular to the optical axis before the focusing lens.