Talk:Piston (optics)

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It would be kind of neat if this article were comprehensible by, say, someone like me who has a semester of college introductory optical physics under his belt.

"However, similar to a real V8 engine piston moving up and down in its cylinder, optical piston values can be changed to bias the wavefront phase mean value as desired."

This sentence is exciting and mesmerizing, but after thinking on it for an hour or two I can't say I have any idea what it means.

If anyone actually understands the content of this page, would you care to consider rewording it so that others may understand it too?

I can't neither, but if you have an Indonesia - English translator under your belt. id:Optical aberration might interests you. ESCapade (talk) 08:30, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree. I added the  tag. Maybe it'll get someone's attention. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 13:36, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

"V8 engine", really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.30.82 (talk) 00:50, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

I will elaborate on the V-8 concept (correct me if, or where, I am wrong). I am no expert in optics (yet) and will not alter the main text, but that's how I see it. Tom Zylak, 14:44 PST, 5/29/12 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.164.104.130 (talk) 21:40, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Imagine that a point on the face of each piston represents the electromagnetic charge value in a transverse oscillation. That point on each piston marks out a sinusoidal path.
 * All 8 cylinders are connected to same crankshaft and oscillate at the same frequency. Analogous to a beam of (8) rays of the same color.
 * If this was an in-line 4 cylinder engine, the comparison would be to a polarized light of the same color.
 * If this was a radial engine, with the pistons all in a single plane, the analogy would represend a momentary pulse of unpolarized light.
 * To represent a beam of light better, imagine a radial-type engine with many < > rings of cylinders arranged in random clocking offset, all connected to the common crankshaft.
 * Note that Piston value is the MEAN value of the beam energy flow, like the pistons of the engine that are uniformly offset (clocked) with respect to eachother and fire sequentially. Imagine if the Piston value was not mean, analogous to all engine pistons firing at the same time and you get the Piston value reading that of a temporal laser beam.