Polarizing cube beamsplitters split randomly polarized beams into two otehogonal, linearly, polarized compoments, S-polarized light is reflected at a 90°while P-polarized light is transmitted.
The Powell lens is a quantum leap forward in line generator performance over the simple cylinder lens. A cylinder lens produces a poorly illuminated line, one limited by the non-uniform, Gaussian laser beam.
Right-angle prism mirrors are extremely versatile optical components, commonly used as individual prisms and components of optical assemblies. A beam of light entering the leg of a right-angle prism mirror will deviate by a nominal value of 90°, while precise rotation of the prism controls beam alignment.
Corner Cube Prism is always used to reflect the beam entering the prism face, regardless of its orientation to the beam. Corner cubes are widely used where precision alignment is difficult.
The light guide rod is a type of glass fiber, which is formed by melting a bundle of regularly arranged multi-component glass fiber fine wires. It can be used for light transmission and low resolution image transmission.
A positive plano cylindrical lens is able to create a line image from a point of light, to change the aspect ratio of an image or to focus collimated input light to a line.
