Next Level Spirit Level (for billiard / pool table) @HuygensOptics

Huygens Optics | Next Level Spirit Level (for billiard / pool table) @HuygensOptics | Uploaded October 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Leveling a billiard table to an exact horizontal orientation requires a very accurate "spirit level" device (also called "bubble level"). In this video I show the complete process, from requirements and design, to prototype manufacturing of the bubble level from 2 borosilicate glass disks.

If you need more details on how to make a spherical surface, you might want to check out this previous video:

youtube.com/watch?v=-E058yElkFM

The two video's referred to below show the optical contact bonding process in detail, so make sure you check them out. It is quite impressive to see 2 surfaces melt together spontaneously by just atomic forces at the surface:

youtube.com/watch?v=se3K_MWR488
youtube.com/watch?v=xZTdurPlhXE

The link below refers to a Sydor video on their Optipro Glassmaster 520 angular machine:

youtube.com/watch?v=oT2_55QNWUs

"Fabrication Methods for Precision Optics" by Hank H. Karow contains detailed information on how to build and operate an angular machine, for those of you interested in building one.

Foucault movie of a parabolic mirror F/4.2 (200 micron movement steps, very short video)

Making a Monolithic Telescope Part 2: Machining Glass

Carl Zeiss S-planar lens pt.3: light collimation

Carl Zeiss S-planar lens pt.1: general discussion

Metal Detector Discrimination Explained (with a Garret AT Pro)

$Coherence part 3: This is not a wave. Trying to find analogies between the wave energy confined in a string and matter interacting with light. 0:00 Intro 6:38 Experiments with waves in a string 15:40 Analogies with electron behaving as waves 22:50 Changing the standing wave mode in a string using phase manipulation 26:49 A hypothetical model for demonstrating quantized wave behavior in a string 32:26 Elastic-Inertial Poetry For this video I used a a few short clips from the following videos and websites: Spinning ball (from Mike Shake): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNBEyjE72w8 Charged ball (from Plasma Channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxagMrTVonQ Refracted wave: (by Ulflund) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73784342 If you like the painting then visit the Rene Magritte website: https://www.renemagritte.org/the-treachery-of-images.jsp Wave animation at 32:25 by Nils Berglund: https://www.youtube.com/@NilsBerglund Did I forget anybody? let me know an I will set it straight.$

DMD Mirrors in a DLP-Projector Moving in Slow Motion (Stroboscopic Effect)

$Directional coherent wave source This short shows a directional wave source that is made by spacing omnidirectional wave emitters in a very specific configuration. The animations were created using the wave simulation code made by @DiffractionLimited As for the question at the end of the video about being able to spot how destructive interference comes about: this is basically impossible to see in the animation. So the answer to the question is NO. However, there are few ways that you can look at how the phenomenon comes about: 1) When moving away in the horizontal direction of a row of emitters, for every point there is an equal amount of emitters that has a particular phase, compared to the emitters that have a phase 180 degrees shifted. So, when adding up these 2 contributions for all the emitters together in a row, this results in a wave amplitude that is almost zero in this direction. 2) An alternative way to look at this is the following: because of the spatial separation of exactly 1 lambda in the vertical direction, a standing wave arises in the array that has almost equal field strength in the horizontal direction within the array. And because the sources are moving in phase with the standing wave, they cannot transfer energy into the surrounding field in the horizontal direction. This also explains why a low intensity in the horizontal direction exists. Both views are in my opinion valid, but I think the second one is a bit more intuitive. Simulation code supplied by @DiffractionLimited The image files for the simulation can be downloaded here: https://huygensoptics.com/2D_wave_sims/coherent_source_detail.png https://huygensoptics.com/2D_wave_sims/coherent_emitter_vertical_100.png #light #physics #optics #short$

DIY Photolithography using 1980s Carl Zeiss S-Planar Lens (405nm)

Maskless Wafer Stepper Part 2: Mechanics