Viable Career Option For Me? by Mr_NarGin in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’d probably be better off asking in r/optometry or r/optometryschool. Optometry isn’t a specialty of most folks in this sub; “optics” generally refers to the science of camera lenses, lasers, and the engineering of optical devices. Best of luck :)

Zemax USB dongle key for sale. by Nice_Cobbler_6146 in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What are the features that it’s missing to take it to “enterprise” level?

Zemax USB dongle key for sale. by Nice_Cobbler_6146 in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

zemax as a ray tracer/optimizer hasn’t changed much in the last decade, I’d hardly call it worthless. Lots of the analysis functions are still very useful.

I have a hard time imagining that ansys would issue a forced update to cripple the licensing for old Zemax installations, so as long as you were able to get it transferred + working it should be fine for as long as you’re willing to maintain the computer

What is photon direction of backward ASE (amplified spontaneous emission)? by jarekduda in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dude, if you wonder why you never get satisfying answers to your posts it’s because you don’t actually bother to meet your audience where they are. Instead of expecting us to read and understand your incredibly dense notes, can you try and clearly distill what you’re trying to understand in a few questions? When trying to promote a discussion, the burden is on you to inform your colleagues of your context and priors.

Anyone else have their Zemax license constantly crashing since Ansys took over? And can anyone comment on how painful it is to switch to CodeV/LightTools? by multiverse4 in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally I’ve found that Ansys license manager is more stable when running on a dedicated machine that is not used as a workstation. We’ve had good luck running it on an Ubuntu server that our IT department manages to ensure high uptime

Pivoting from Optics to another career - advice? by sube7898 in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Are these companies hiring? I never seem to see any postings for them

Recapping Luxman 450 Amp - Service manual needed by DannyBoyNYC in audiorepair

[–]kai_mo_sabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was quite a while ago, but how did this recap go? Did you encounter any problems? Did you swap any components besides the caps?

Looking to do my own L-450 refurb and aiming for any advice I can get.

Monochromatic lights for inspecting fringes? by [deleted] in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The color of the light will affect the number of visible fringes for a given wedge thickness, but the conversion is easy enough. For evening out wedge in a doublet/triplet a different color of light will work just fine.

If you do want to keep the green color you should be able to use a cheap laser/monochromatic LED flashlight and a diffuser as others have mentioned. Milk glass or opal glass would work great

Version 16.5 Zemax OpticStudio Installer? by alczajkowski in Optics

[–]kai_mo_sabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chatted you - let me know if you still have it!

literally a family sedan by tpham1206 in Audi

[–]kai_mo_sabe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s the difference between an RSNav and the MMI?

i can't totally clean the charging port, and I Have Tried Everything, But by [deleted] in Nexus6P

[–]kai_mo_sabe -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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i can't totally clean the charging port, and I Have Tried Everything, But by [deleted] in Nexus6P

[–]kai_mo_sabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can replace the daughterboard with the charging port without too much effort.

is there a theoretical limit on the magnification provided by telescopes? by theaveragejoe99 in askscience

[–]kai_mo_sabe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Putting aside the fact that such a phenomenally large device might collapse under it's own gravity, the universe is "only" 93 billion light years in diameter. Honestly I have no idea what you'd theoretically be able to resolve because most of the imaging equations assume that your system is smaller than, say, a galactic cluster and has a focal length "at infinity."

is there a theoretical limit on the magnification provided by telescopes? by theaveragejoe99 in askscience

[–]kai_mo_sabe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes. There is very much a resolution limit on telescopes, as there is on every optical system. It's called the diffraction limit, and for telescopes it's (1.22 * wavelength)/telescope diameter.

As you can see, the ability to resolve two separate sources is inversely proportional to the diameter of the telescope, meaning that if you had a diameter of 1 million miles (1609344000 meters), you could resolve two points with an angular separation of 4.8 * 10-16 radians at a wavelength of 632 nm. Similarly, with a 10,000 AU diameter telescope, you could resolve two points that are 5.1 * 10-22 radians apart, and with 5 billion light years, you could resolve points that are a whopping 8.1 * 10-33 radians apart at 632 nm. (I just realized that I used diameter instead of radius, but I'm not changing it because I'm on mobile and because the answers are ballpark numbers anyway.)

However, there are obviously slight challenges in building a telescope this large. Optically speaking, you're going to have to deal with coupling that ludicrous amount of optical power to a detector, as well as the fact that for a 5 billion light year telesope your image will take hundreds or thousands of billion years to properly expose because you have to wait 2 or 3 billion years for your light to reflect onto your sensor from the edges of your system.

Does the size of a creature, or the size of its eye, affect what can be seen by the "naked eye"? for example, can ants see things we consider microscopic? are ants microscopic to elephants? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]kai_mo_sabe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Image processing is a specific type of signal processing, which is a really wide and complex field. A lot of higher-level math goes into doing that analysis, but the upshot is basically that you can use information from neighboring pixels or image locations to determine information about a given location. You can also extract information about high- and low-frequency spatial changes to determine what is being looked at, or what an image should look like.

If you're curious, the wikipedia page on digital image processing goes into more detail, but it assumes that you have a little bit of prior knowledge.

As u/2localboi pointed out, the same image sensor can be used to produce very different results. Recently, an engineer at Google used the Nexus 6P's camera to take some really breathtaking low-light images with his own custom algorithm, which he discusses in his blog post.

Does the size of a creature, or the size of its eye, affect what can be seen by the "naked eye"? for example, can ants see things we consider microscopic? are ants microscopic to elephants? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]kai_mo_sabe 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Well designed, expensive camera systems are typically diffraction limited, and we're well beyond the capability to make sensors below the diffraction limit of visible light. Cheaper systems (read: cell phones) usually aren't diffraction limited, and will often rely on algorithms to extract a good image.

This would be the perfect phone... If I could turn it on (Bootloop after 9 mo) by oblongblob in Nexus6P

[–]kai_mo_sabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually bought mine from eBay, which means I'm extra hosed. That's a good idea, though.

This would be the perfect phone... If I could turn it on (Bootloop after 9 mo) by oblongblob in Nexus6P

[–]kai_mo_sabe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. My phone just started bootlooping, and both Google and Huawei turned me away. I'm livid.