Optical prisms

Application
 This application is utilized by refractometer and spectrographic components. Since this initial discovery, prisms have been used in “bending” light within a system, “folding” the system into a smaller space, changing the orientation (also known as handedness or parity) of an image, as well as combining or splitting optical beams with partial reflecting surfaces. These uses are common in applications with telescopes, binoculars, surveying equipment, and a host of others.