Prism (optics) – Harry & Co Jewellery

Types of Prisms

Dispersive prisms break up light into its constituent spectral colors.
Reflective prisms are used to reflect, invert, rotate, or deviate light.
Depolarizer prisms can alter the polarization of light.
Other types of prisms can alter polarization, maintain optics, or convert between circular and linear polarization.
Prisms have various uses in optics, plasmonics, and microscopy.

Dispersive prisms refract light and separate it into different colors based on wavelength.
Triangular prism is a common type of dispersive prism.
Other types of compound prisms include Amici prism, Littrow prism, Pellin-Broca prism, and Abbe prism.
Grism is a dispersive prism with a diffraction grating on its surface.
Spectral dispersion is a well-known property of dispersive prisms.

Reflective prisms are used to reflect light and maintain the orientation of the image.
Total internal reflection is used to achieve near-perfect reflection in reflective prisms.
Prisms made of optical glass with anti-reflective coating have lower light loss compared to metallic mirrors.
Thin-film optical layers can be deposited on prisms to create beam-splitter cubes.
Reflective prisms can eliminate etalon effects, back-side reflection, and slight beam deflection.

Birefringent crystals can be assembled to create depolarization of light.
Cornu depolarizer and Lyot depolarizer are examples of depolarizer prisms.
Depolarization is observed when temporal or spatial coherence of the beam is reduced.
Depolarization is not observed for ideal monochromatic plane waves.
Depolarizer prisms convert coherence of polarization components into decoherence.

Prisms made of isotropic materials like glass can alter polarization of light.
Total internal reflection in prisms has various applications in optics, plasmonics, and microscopy.
Wedge prisms are used to deflect a beam of monochromatic light by a fixed angle.
Anamorphic pair of prisms can change the profile of a beam.
Deck prisms were used on sailing ships to bring daylight below deck.

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Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_(optics)
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