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Or is it used to collimate the steam... Pretty neat nevertheless.

Some cheap pointers use nothing more that collimated LEDs.

Optically the C8 is still fine, you might want to re-collimate it, but that's a bit of an after thought. Calculating the backfocus for your optical train might be tricky.

Search up beam forming, phased arrays, collimated beams and metamaterial based beam guides

Honestly for this use case, just sliced and stacked a single dish would give you mostly-collimated light, right? If you put this behind a mild diffuser you could probably still trick your brain unto thinking it's sunlight coming through the curtains.

We can reflect and collimate beams, but I don’t think there’s much success capturing sizable volumes of free neutron particles in a chamber. We know that we can collect neutrons into a degenerate gas.

The mirror is a lens that helps collimate the light for this purpose. The attentional split of the device is a different argument, but I was just correcting this error that there's 'nothing projected into the eye'.

What is considered a "reasonable" orbit depends on our ability to collimate the microwave beam's rays, which is not an easy task

The antenna required to collimate the beam from LEO, down to a person sized spot on earth, would be massive. Single antenna apertures are limited to about 90 dB of gain, and I doubt that is near enough, but I’d have to run some calculations.

I've tried my best at home with ghetto optics/techniques to get something near a collimated setup. Other than a trip to the optician with very specific values I don't see myself being able to collimate my cellphone's display.

Glass uses the same technology as the military HUD - throwing collimated light into your eye and using your retina as the screen. Not to mention that the glass is still in your field of vision when looking elsewhere, you're just not directly focusing on it.

Current HMD lenses collimate the light so you focus on infinity which is isn't too stressful for your eyes. There's still strain from vergence-accommodation conflict, but I think light field displays will outpace the holographic waveguide tech that MS is using.

Apparently you can't collimate sunlight because it's not a point source. But I've been unable to find an explanation as to exactly why which I can understand, because this aspect of optics is deeply unintuitive, but the magic phrase to search for is 'conservation of éntendue'.

We don't know the exact position of submarines, since the water interferes with the GPS-like systems and makes them unreliable, while neutrino beams need to be highly collimated to create a big enough flux.

They're a readily available source of coherent, monochromatic, collimated light.

The benefit of a Fresnel lense is that it only needs to roughly collimate the light, not to focus an image, whereas for a telescope mirror or lense you want as much incident light to come to the focal plane at the same focal length.

Dust, mist, and/or Rayleigh scattering means I wouldn't need to be in the beampath to "see" it, but I guess if you've solved the problem of aiming a collimated laser beam from a moving ship to another moving ship, and reliably hitting the "receiver" at the far end, you can probably do it at low enough power levels to make that very hard

I believe he's implying the use of the satellite as a repeater and the intervening space as a delay line I do not think it's viable in any sense with launch costs but in a hypothetical scenario where you had something 20 light minutes away with a channel that had no better use you certainly could buffer 40 minutes of data on the channel It is limited here not by the availability of space but the ability to collimate the signal and the availability of power density at the receiver to discern the signal from noise

Quote Examples using Collimate

This is easiest to see with a lasersl backlighting a transparency, since the light is collimated and monochromatic. The transparency produces diffraction at its edges, which causes the effect. Actually, you'd also see the spatial Fourier transform at infinity if you took away the lens. The result of this is that you can do cool spatial frequency filtering effects at the focal point, then convert it back into an image with another lens. Laser systems that require high precision will use such a setup to remove high-frequency components and pass just the collimated light.

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