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Encyclopedia > Decollimation

Decollimation: In a beam with the minimum possible ray divergence or convergence, any mechanism by which rays are caused to diverge or converge from parallelism.


Decollimation may be deliberate for systems reasons, or may be caused by many factors, such as refractive index inhomogeneities, occlusions, scattering, deflection, diffraction, reflection, and refraction.


Decollimation occurs in applications such as radio, radar, sonar, and optical communications.


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Windscreen deviation correcting pilot display - Patent 4632508 (2692 words)
This obviously presents serious problems to a high-speed aircraft pilot and the problem becomes exacerbated as more sleek windscreens are developed in aircraft locating the pilot farther back from a relatively thick windscreen.
Decollimation of the head up display cannot be used as a solution for this problem.
The purpose of this invention is provide an aircraft pilot with the virtual image display that can be made free of symbol position error and pilot discomfort that is always present and uncorrectable when a head up display is used in an aircraft equipped with a curved windscreen.
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