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Eyeglasses were developed based on the early study of optics, with the first magnifying convex lens thought to be described in Ptolemy’s Optics. Arabic scholars improved upon the concept of a lens, with the most notable contributions coming from Ibn al-Haytham in his work ''Book of Optics''. The first functional set of corrective lenses bound within a frame is theorized to have been created in Northern Italy around Pisa in the early 12th century.

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Eyeglasses are also used for eye protection uses, such as safety goggles or sunglasses, with the former protecting from physical debris falling into the eyes, and the latter protecting from UV rays. Modern technologies have allowed for the development of polarized lenses, which are capable of blocking out certain wavelengths of light. These are typically used to reduce the UVA and UVB (wavelengths < 400 nm) exposure from the sun, but have also been adapted for use in laser labs with particular wavelength bands being blocked depending on the wavelengths of the lasers being used.

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We have seen that the diffraction-limited resolution of a spectrograph is given by R = Nn = Wn / d, where N is the total number of grooves in the grating, n the order of the spectrum, W the width of the grating and d the groove spacing. Hence, to increase R we can do one of three things:

Simply inserting an echelle in place of a standard grating in a spectrograph, however, would result in multiply overlapping orders. The free spectral range is very small at high orders, hence order sorting filters are of limited use. The solution is to use an additional dispersing element, known as a cross disperser. The cross disperser, which can be either a low dispersion grating or prism, is usually mounted after the echelle grating with its dispersion axis perpendicular to it, as shown in the left-hand panel figure 99. This means that the overlapping orders are separated in the spatial direction on the detector, as shown in the right-hand panel of figure 99. Although each order has only a very narrow wavelength range, there are so many of them, each covering slightly different wavelengths, that very wide spectral coverage is achieved. To prevent the orders overlapping in the spatial direction, only a very short slit must be used. Echelle spectrographs (or high-resolution spectrographs) can deliver resolutions in excess of R = 100,000, and are most famously employed in the detection of extrasolar planets by measuring the tiny Doppler wobble of the host stars.

If high-resolution spectroscopy is required, the easiest approach is to increase n which, from the grating equation, implies the use of increased angles of incidence and diffraction. A grating optimised for high-order work is known as an echelle, which comes from the French word for stairs (which describes the blazed profile of the grating). Echelle gratings do not need particularly high ruling frequencies as they operate in high orders. Typical echelles have 20-200 lines/mm and are blazed so that the maximum grating efficiency is in the range n = 10-100.

Eyeglasses, also known as spectacles or simply glasses, are a pair of lenses set into a frame that allows them to sit in front of the user’s eyes, typically as a visual aid. The middle of the frame sits atop the bridge of the nose, while the arms extend to loop around the ears so that the pair of glasses remains affixed to the user’s face without much need for adjustment. The lenses were historically made of glass, but can now be made with either glass or plastic, with the concavity or convexity varying based on the visual impairment of the user.

You can typically tell whether a lens is intended to be corrective by seeing whether the lens distorts light while looking through it. Likewise, you can test if a lens has been polarized by looking through it at an LCD screen, as some screens are distorted by the polarization.