French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
augustin jean fresnel
Fresnel Sentence Examples
It is true that the dioptric apparatus was perfected independently by Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation.
Thanks to Fresnel and his followers, this department of optics is now precisely the one in which the theory has gained its greatest triumphs.
For the aggregate effect of the secondary waves is the half of that of the first Fresnel zone, and it is the central element only of that zone for which the distance to be travelled is equal to r.
When the primary wave is plane, the area of the first Fresnel zone is 7rXr, and, since the secondary waves vary as r 1, the intensity is independent of r, as of course it should be.
This may be regarded as a consequence of the altered area of the first Fresnel zone.