Ih optICal

Because of their capacity to distort and

manipulate light, prisms play an important
role in designing a variety of optical
equipment. Porro prisms are a single unit of
two prisms. They were invented in 1850 and
are named after their inventor lgnazio
Porro. This instrument pushes light back the
way it came from while reversing it
vertically and horizontally.

Telescopes, microscopes, Cameras, and

submarine periscopes are examples of
optical instruments that utilise prisms.
Telescopes manipulate light travelling
enormous distances to reach the eye by
combining several prisms into a single unit.
Unpolarised and randomly polarised light
get separated into linearly polarised light
by the Wollaston prism. At the
intersection
of the two triangular prisms, light is
split
into ordinary and
extraordinary beams,
bending away from each other. Rotational
mounts, CDplayers, and polarisation
microscopy all require prisms of this type.
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