Talk:Fresnel lens

message: Here: (pronounced ['frɛz.nəl] or [freɪ'nɛl])
In the Fresnel bio article:(French pronunciation: [ɔgystɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ fʁɛnɛl]; pronounced /freɪˈnɛl/ fray-NELL in English)
Why would we pronounce the two uses differently? (As far as I know, saying a "z" in the word is bad usage)
Hoemaco (talk) 17:35, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pronunciation of something named for a person does not always follow pronunciation of the name.  Take Mt Everest for example which is pronounced usually as Ever-rest or Ev-rest, while the man for whom it is named pronounced his name as Eave-rest.  But I do wonder if it's pronounced Frez-nel.  Most dictionaries I've found give a soft s pronounciation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.184.5 (talk) 21:17, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

text: I can not find but one reference to the "Z" sound at all.  I've also (I know, original research, right-) never heard someone refer to it with the "Z" sound, unless they were completely uneducated as to the subject matter at hand (lens, zone, etc.).  I can, however, find many references as to the pronunciation without the "Z" sound.  Examples include dictionary.com, even howjsay.com] (heh) etc.  How about we remove it, unless there is a clear citation of the (incorrect) "Z" sound, which I can not seem to find, except in this article and MW (first citation - the same source that incorrectly lists "nuclear" as being pronounced with the "YOO" sound)? --The Deviant (talk) 16:40, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You're not making any sense. The Merriam-Webster dictionary is a reliable source. That is sufficient. No further sources are required. The "Z" pronunciation is presumably much less common. That does not justify excluding it, given that a reliable source documents it. Keep in mind too that pronunciation varies in different parts of the English-speaking world. A pronunciation that is rare where you live may be common elsewhere.--Srleffler (talk) 07:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Lack of agreement with the point does not make the point nonsensical.  In any industry that actually makes use of the terms "Fresnel lens" and "Fresnel zone" (yes, anywhere in the world - not regional) it is not pronounced with the "Z" sound.  I guess if people consider MW a reliable source that trumps all others, then it's a moot point.  Hey, that's what talk pages are for, so there we have it. The Deviant (talk) 18:04, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The existence of a single reliable source dictionary that documents a pronunciation is sufficient to establish that that is a valid pronunciation of the word. Whether or not other sources also include that pronunciation is irrelevant.--Srleffler (talk) 00:18, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: The four references are all password protected. Would not it be better to use passwords that are not protected? KudzuVine 21:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Password Protected References

message: Just a quick word. This whole page is talking about compressed optical lenses. I'm pretty sure that these are not Fresnel Lenses. The ones mentioned here are mistakenly called Freznel lenses because they are essentially flat like a Fresnel Lens. [[zone plate|Fresnel zone plates}} are the actual Fresnel Lenses. --WB-Frontier 11:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I searched a number of sources, including Encyclopedia Britannica and biographical reference sources available to me through the University of North Carolina Greensboro library.  Using what I discovered that way, I added a paragraph about the development of the Fresnel lens.  Well, actually, I guess it is about the various people who were involved in its development.  I'm not an optics expert, by any means, but I used what I could find from reliable sources.  -- Kam Tonnes 20:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Compressed optical lenses

message: The traffic light article states that some new lights use Fresnel lenses to limit the visibility of the light to cars in specific lanes.  While I have seen such sytems in some intersections, I don't know enough about the subject to definitively link traffic lights and Fresnel lenses.  Could someone more knowledegable than I add a section on this form of implementation, if these lenses are in fact used in traffic lights? — EagleOne\Talk 18:02, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traffic light implementation 

message: Would be great if someone could create a diagram showing the path of the light rays.
:There is a nice web page describing a Fresnel lens that does this.  However, I have a different comment about this page      http://www.lanternroom.com/misc/freslens.htm  If you look at the bottom of the page, the author states that the material is copyrighted (that's fine), but then the author states that people should not hot link to his Fresnel lens site.  I doubt that any form of copyright could properly forbid people from hot linking to a site.  If my assumption is true, you should be able to link to his site, and accomplish two things--first, see the path of the light, and second, refer users to another place where a good description of a Fresnel lens is located.  Possibly if some WP editor sees this comment, he can tell us if forbidding hot links to a web page is enforceable.  I suppose the author could always remove the link from the WP article, but would that be vandalism? Thermbal 00:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Would love to see an explanation of the differences between first, second, third, and fourth order Fresnel lenses referenced but not explained in this article. There is a photo of a third order lense and a notation in other locations about the detroit river light house having donated it's fourth oder fresnel lense to a museum and I now wonder just what the differences might be between these types. If anyone can shed some light (pun intended) it would be most appreciated.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.166.15.114 (talk) 19:19, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request 

message: Lighting gaffers use the focusing ability of Fresnel instruments for two purposes: to modify light intensity by spreading or narrowing the beam and to change beam-edge characteristics (from hard to soft). Beam edges are masked by one or both of two methods: by "barn door" flaps mounted on hinges in front of the lens and moved in and out of the light path, and/or by "flags:" (usually) rectangular sheets or paddles placed on separate stands some distance in front of the lighting instrument. Both masking techniques can be fine-tuned by altering the focus of the light beam. A hard line edge may be wanted or a fairly subtle falling off -- or anything in between.
Not sure any of this properly belongs in the Fresnel article though. --Jim Stinson 00:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film and video uses 

message: I touched up the paragraph on theater and motion pictures slightly to improve accuracy (the phrase I cut: "brighter than a typical lens" is too vague. What is a typical lens? Jim Stinson 02:53, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  minor edit 

message: Development
The idea of creating a thinner, lighter lens by making it with separate sections mounted in a frame is often attributed to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.[1] However, it is difficult to find any other sources that link Buffon to work with optics. French physicist and engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel is most often given credit for the development of this lens for use in lighthouses. According to Smithsonian, the first Fresnel lens was used in 1822 in a lighthouse on the Gironde River in France, Cardovan Tower; its light could be seen from more than 20 miles out.[2] Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster is credited with convincing the British to use these lenses in their lighthouses.[3][4]
More specificaly. what does this mean???
is often attributed to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.[1] However, it is difficult to find any other sources that link Buffon to work with
Any other sources??, other than what??  Georges-Louis is the subject, I can understand that.  What are these previously unmentioned other sources??  Wouldn't it be better to just leave them out altogether!
:I agree. If it means other than EB (mentioned in footnote), then EB needs to be mentioned in the main text, not merely a footnote. Nurg (talk) 02:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: First of all, it's the Smithsonian Institution, not the Smithsonian Institute.  But no, the excerpt cited above has a footnote in the article (that's the significance of the [2] after the sentence.  The footnote is to an article in Smithsonian, the magazine published by the Smithsonian Institution. 140.147.160.34 (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "any other sources"? Smithsonian? 

message: One of the paragraphs in the 'Uses' section contains a redlink to 'retina identification'.  I thought I might point it to retinal scan, possibly retaining the original wording - does anyone who knows more than I about the subject know of any reason why that might be a bad or misleading idea?  Cooperised (talk) 21:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of a reply I went ahead and made the change.  Cooperised (talk) 21:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retina identification - link fix? 

message: Diffractive telescopes with Fresnel lenses fabricated on thin membranes offer several advantages over telescopes that use mirrors: thin-membrane lenses
are lightweight, packageable, and space-deployable.
Transmissive diffractive lenses are significantly less
sensitive to surface deformations than mirrors, and
the chromatic effects of the diffractive primary can
be completely compensated for.
As a first step in developing the Eyeglass
technology, LLNL scientists built and tested a small-aperture (20-cm), color-corrected diffractive telescope
and obtained a broadband image of the lunar surface. Next, they built and demonstrated an 80-cm-aperture
segmented, foldable lens.
In 2002, the researchers constructed a 5-m, f/50 Fresnel lens – comprising 72 segments patterned with binary
Fresnel arcs in photoresist – and secured it to a 750-μm-thick sheet of glass with UV-curable cement and metal
tabs. The assembled lens was mounted in a frame and the focal spot of a white-light source mounted at the
opposite focus was imaged. This demonstration lens was not made to give diffraction-limited performance, but
to demonstrate assembly and deployment at a scale large enough to be of interest for imaging. The surfacetension
gradient between a thin film adhering to a substrate and a free surface of falling film is strong enough
to pull etchant off of the substrate surface. Regardless of substrate movement, the wetted zone remains stationary relative to the applicator. The Marangoni effect can also be thermally driven.
https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/psa/pdfs/technologies/eyeglass_space_telescope.pdf
217.196.160.253 (talk) 00:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space telescope 

message: The references do not seem to support the contention that the order of a lighthouse lens is roughly equal to its power in diopters. The correspondence is extremely rough, and only works for the American ranking, not Fresnel's original system (at least as given in the referenced chart from the LoC). This claim needs a definite citation of its own. Mangoe (talk) 14:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Fresnel's orders mean 

message: Fresnel reflector is currently redirecting here. I don't believe Fresnel reflectors are a type of Fresnel lens so I plan to move the information on Fresnel reflectors to their own article. It will have links back here. Lumenos (talk) 21:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the best place to discuss this would be there not here. Lumenos (talk) 21:18, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving Fresnel reflector info to its own article 

message: http://lighthouse-society.org/assets/resources/articles/fresnel_lens_1.pdf
Are the lenses cast as one or individual prisms?--Ericg33 (talk) 08:29, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manufacturing needed 

message: I believe that in the picture, the lens disperses the light, it does not focus it. _ Mr.Shoval (talk) 22:07, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it from focuses to collimates. Dispersing is something only concave lenses can do.  Laura Scudder | talk 22:34, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture: How a spherical Fresnel lens focuses light 

message: Why is there a link to "Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation"? It's a personal website about people who destroyed things with a Fresnel lens. Is there anything of interest for the article? Does it bear a relation with any part of the article? Jelt (talk) 21:08, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. Deleted.--Srleffler (talk) 05:35, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is there a link to Random Destructive Acts via Focused Solar Radiation? 

message: I reversed today's edits. A diffractive optical element is not a Fresnel lens. Both types of optical element can have a flat overall profile and obtain focusing by grooves in the surface, but the mechanism is different. A Fresnel lens focuses light by simple refraction: the lens surface is broken up into small regions, each of which refracts light in the correct direction to form a focus. A diffractive optical element, on the other hand has grooves in its surface that are closer together than the wavelength of light. These closely-spaced grooves redirect light rays by diffraction rather than refraction.
Adding to the confusion between the two types of lens, Fresnel did a lot of work on diffraction, and his analyses led to the development of some of the first diffractive optics, such as Fresnel zone plates.--Srleffler (talk) 02:32, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diffractive optical element 

message: Mention if es have been found in nature. Jidanni (talk) 02:59, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: In nature

message: Mention if looking through es are worse for the eyes than conventional lenses. Jidanni (talk) 02:59, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Health effects

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message: The photo that has the caption "first order Fresnel lens on the left" shows three more lenses.  It would be good to say what order those lenses are.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:22, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: What about concave Fresnel lens?--وسام زقوت (talk) 14:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: What about concave Fresnel lens

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message: These are used in neurology
Frenzel lens can be used in provocation study to help diagnose the cause of vertigo. The frenzel lens is used to keep a patient’s vision blurry while the physician can easily see the payient’s Eyes.
 In the provocation study, the patients head is shaken to determine if vertigo or nystagmus occur, and in which direction the nystagmus occurs.
I believe ophthalmology uses frenzel lenses as well. Tmbirkhead (talk) 19:17, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Used in medical diagnosis 

message: Fresnel lens have been in use in VR (Virtual Reality) headsets since 2016. I'm surprised they are not mentioned in this article at all. The Vive has them, for instance. Lolsocks (talk) 01:40, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in virtual reality 

message: Search lights, spot lights, and flashlights.
Drsruli (talk) 07:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep.--Srleffler (talk) 14:23, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the youtube channel "Technology Connections" says that the lamp assemblies on cars (blinkers and brake lights) are fresnel lenses. Considering how many people have seen the weird grid pieces of plastic on their cars I think it should be there. 2600:100C:B2AE:42EA:11CB:6876:68D3:559E (talk) 12:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The article already talks about this.--Srleffler (talk) 02:06, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional uses 

message: your article claims there is only 3 1st order fresnel lenses (largest) left and they are in New England, that is wrong..... Haceta Head Lighthouse in Southern Oregon has one of the 1st order I know because I just went on the tour. It is still in use! 166.181.250.9 (talk) 11:30, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see where the article claims there are only three first-order lenses left. What section do you see that in?--Srleffler (talk) 18:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The number of fresnel lenses left in the 1st order in the United States