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Various thin-film optical layers can be deposited on the hypotenuse of one right-angled prism, and cemented to another prism to form a beam-splitter cube. Overall optical performance of such a cube is determined by the thin layer.

Prisms made of isotropic materials like glass will also alter polarization of light, as partial reflection under oblique angles does not maintain the amplitude ratio (nor phase) of the s- and p-polarized components of the light, leading to general elliptical polarization. This is generally an unwanted effect of dispersive prisms. In some cases this can be avoided by choosing prism geometry which light enters and exits under perpendicular angle, by compensation through non-planar light trajectory, or by use of p-polarized light.

Spectral dispersion is the best known property of optical prisms, although not the most frequent purpose of using optical prisms in practice.

Total internal reflection alters only the mutual phase between s- and p-polarized light. Under well chosen angle of incidence, this phase is close to π / 4 {\displaystyle \pi /4} .

Prism spectacles with a single prism perform a relative displacement of the two eyes, thereby correcting eso-, exo, hyper- or hypotropia.

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These are typically made of a birefringent crystalline material like calcite, but other materials like quartz and α-BBO may be necessary for UV applications, and others (MgF2, YVO4 and TiO2) will extend transmission farther into the infrared spectral range.

In comparison with a usual glass substrate, the glass cube provides protection of the thin-film layer from both sides and better mechanical stability. The cube can also eliminate etalon effects, back-side reflection and slight beam deflection.

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Depolarization would not be observed for an ideal monochromatic plane wave, as actually both devices turn reduced temporal coherence or spatial coherence, respectively, of the beam into decoherence of its polarization components.

A dispersive prism can be used to break white light up into its constituent spectral colors (the colors of the rainbow) to form a spectrum as described in the following section. Other types of prisms noted below can be used to reflect light, or to split light into components with different polarizations.

The physical explanation for this phenomenon is the definition of a "black body radiator" according to Max Planck. A black body absorbs all incident radiation, i.e. it reflects no radiation. The colour temperature refers to the temperature of the black body which generates the same colour impression as the actually existing lighting.

In contrast, spectacles with prisms of equal power for both eyes, called yoked prisms (also: conjugate prisms, ambient lenses or performance glasses) shift the visual field of both eyes to the same extent.[5]

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Another class is formed by polarizing prisms which use birefringence to split a beam of light into components of varying polarization. In the visible and UV regions, they have very low losses and their extinction ratio typically exceeds 10 5 : 1 {\displaystyle 10^{5}:1} , which is superior to other types of polarizers. They may or may not employ total internal reflection;

Each type of illumination has an individual light spectrum with a different distribution over the visible range of wavelengths with different intensity. An incandescent lamp does indeed have a complete spectrum which, however, has a typical bell-shaped intensity distribution of a "black body" radiator. Metal halide lamps, fluorescent lamps and LEDs even have very significant emissions in specific wavelength ranges.

A special role in image processing plays LED lighting. Its characteristics such as durability, mechanical robustness, ideal arrangement capability in almost any housing shapes are ideal for machine vision purposes. Its light colour is not only white, but also red, green or blue, infrared or even ultraviolet. This allows for applications which would not be possible using other types of illumination. Therefore, many industrial machine vision applications are realised using LED illumination.

Even "white" light can be generated in many different ways. Depending on the problem, light requirements, object size, installation dimensions etc., different lighting is used:

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Not every white light source seems to have the same shade of white for the viewer. In case of colour (as well as monochrome) camera systems, it can also be observed that the images have colour effects, or that grey values are shifted significantly.

The temperature of a colour is measured and indicated in kelvin (K) and is a measure for the colour impression of a light source. The spectrum visible to the human eye ranges approximately between 2,790 and 11,000 kelvin.

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Daylight Image shows normal colors, similar like human eyes would see. White reference area to the left is light gray White LED Blue logo (top left) brightened, picture colder overall color effect of blue tint fluorescent lamp White reference area appears yellow-green, green tones are a little brighter Halogen lamp White reference area appears orange, image, because of high proportion of yellow and red waveleghts. Part discolored completely and only low image contrast.

By shifting corrective lenses off axis, images seen through them can be displaced in the same way that a prism displaces images. Eye care professionals use prisms, as well as lenses off axis, to treat various orthoptics problems:

An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light. At least one surface must be angled — elements with two parallel surfaces are not prisms. The most familiar type of optical prism is the triangular prism, which has a triangular base and rectangular sides. Not all optical prisms are geometric prisms, and not all geometric prisms would count as an optical prism. Prisms can be made from any material that is transparent to the wavelengths for which they are designed. Typical materials include glass, acrylic and fluorite.

Dispersive prisms are used to break up light into its constituent spectral colors because the refractive index depends on wavelength; the white light entering the prism is a mixture of different wavelengths, each of which gets bent slightly differently. Blue light is slowed more than red light and will therefore be bent more than red light.

Reflective prisms are used to reflect light, in order to flip, invert, rotate, deviate or displace the light beam. They are typically used to erect the image in binoculars or single-lens reflex cameras – without the prisms the image would be upside down for the user.

Reflective prisms use total internal reflection to achieve near-perfect reflection of light that strikes the facets at a sufficiently oblique angle. Prisms are usually made of optical glass which, combined with anti-reflective coating of input and output facets, leads to significantly lower light loss than metallic mirrors.