Patent ID: 6966661

Claim:
An apparatus for magnification, comprising: an objective reflecting surface in the shape a truncated half-paraboloid formed by revolving a parabola about its axis for only 180 degrees of a full a revolution such that there is a plane defined by the optical axis and the parabolic edge of the surfaces, ocular reflecting surface of same shape but of different size, a means of positioning said objective reflecting surface and said ocular reflecting surface consisting of a solid material that is substantially transparent to some electromagnetic radiation and fills the inner space between the objective reflecting surface and the ocular reflecting surface such that their axes are substantially colinear but point in opposite directions, their focal points are at substantially the same shared point, they are on opposite sides of the shared focal point, and the planes formed between the optical axis and the parabolic edge of each surface are in the same plane in space, whereby a virtual image may be magnified or demagnified.