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Mechanism to facilitate the fine adjustment of sidelights
Author(s) -
Goitein Michael
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.594183
Subject(s) - mechanism (biology) , simple (philosophy) , optics , beam (structure) , computer science , physics , philosophy , epistemology , quantum mechanics
A simple optical mechanism is presented for the fine adjustment of sidelights. The characteristics of the device are that large angular displacements are required to achieve small lateral motions of a light beam. For this reason, the mounting mechanism may be made to quite coarse tolerances.