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

Hall and I were seated near another table about twenty-five feet distant from the tube, and on this table was an apparatus furnished with a concave mirror, whose optical axis was directed towards the tube.

From The Moon Metal by Serviss, Garrett Putman

By means of a collar with two centering screws attached to the end of the tube, the objective may be brought into the optical axis.

From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Leitz, Ernst