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Achromatic
Achromatic meaning
Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion. | Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion. | Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid.
Synonyms of Achromatic
Example sentences (10)
An alternative to achromatic doublets is the use of diffractive optical elements.
Brewster chose renowned achromatic lens developer Philip Carpenter as one of many manufacturers of the kaleidoscope in 1816.
Brewster chose renowned achromatic lens developer Philip Carpenter as the sole manufacturer of the kaleidoscope in 1817.
For an achromatic dispersive lens the converse must be adopted.
Glasses' Abbe numbers, along with their mean refractive indices, are used in the calculation of the required refractive powers of the elements of achromatic lenses in order to cancel chromatic aberration to first order.
It can be minimised by using an achromatic doublet (or achromat) in which two materials with differing dispersion are bonded together to form a single lens.
Note that these two parameters which enter into the equations for design of achromatic doublets are exactly what is plotted on an Abbe diagram.
The 'K' component absorbs all wavelengths and is therefore achromatic.
These chromatic errors of systems, which are achromatic for two colors, are called the secondary spectrum, and depend upon the aperture and focal length in the same manner as the primary chromatic errors do.
The system requires only stable continuous spectral light source, two polarizers, an achromatic quarter-wave plate and a spectrometer.