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

Approaching it carefully, Seaton deftly guided the projector lengthwise into that hollow receptacle and anchored it in the exact optical axis.

From Skylark Three by Wessolowski, Hans Waldemar

Place this reflector in the prolongation of the optical axis, set the candle so that the light from the reflector shall be shown through the glass, and look through the opening.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon