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How different types of lenses affect the optical system?

The use of lenses is expanding rapidly, in the field of the sophisticated optic system. The lens's benefits have effectively helped solve various optical system issues and introduced different new techniques into consideration. This read may help you to understand some advantages of multiple types of lenses.
 

Optical Lenses


 
There are various types of lens, each with a variety of functions. Optical Lenses are a type of single optically transparent lens. These lenses are designed to transmit and refract light to create a specific optical outcome. You must know that these lenses are different from the photographic lens. An optical lens can both crate a converging beam and a diverging beam. Converging beam is a process through which light is focused to a point, and in a diverging beam, light is spread out from the lens. There are various types of optical lenses; these are as mentioned below.

•    Biconvex optical lens
•    Plano-convex optical lens
•    Positive meniscus optical lens
•    Negative meniscus optical lens
•    Plano concave optical lens
•    Biconcave optical lens
 

Collimating Lens



Collimating Lenses is a kind made typically with a tube with one or more than one lenses inside. Before getting into the intricate mechanism of a collimating lens, you need to decipher collimating processes. Collimating is a typical process of putting light particles in a parallel fashion. This process ensures that the light has its minimal spread and it propagates. The magic of such lenses lies in selecting the distance lights that are collimated with high accuracy. These lenses are widely used to measure color analysis, flicker, white point adjustment, and gamma response.
 

Achromatic Lens



Achromatic Lenses are a kind of lens made with a combination of two various types. This dual combination is conducive to the chromatic free aberration. This type of lens is designed to control the chromatic aberration, which is also known as achromat and thus the name achromatic.
 

Rod Lens



Rod lens or (Graded-refractive-index) Grain-rod lens is a special type of cylindrical lens with a super polished circumference. Rod Lenses are used analogously to the cylindrical lens by focusing a collimated lens into a line. Being polished by the rim, these lenses serve as a useful endoscopy tool.  
 

Cylindrical Lens



Cylindrical lens or Cylinder Lens is used as a single axial convergence or divergence beam found in optical measurement. These types of lenses are used in various medical appliances such as x-ray machine and microscopes.
 

Sapphire Lens



Sapphire being the second hardest material on earth, a Sapphire Lens makes it a quite sturdy material. These lenses have an extreme mechanical strength with UV transmission ranging from 150 nm to 5um.

If you want to know more about lenses and how it affects the optical system, it will be wise to do detailed research from an authorized source. Stepwise learning will help you find the perfect thing you are looking for.