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Fresnel zone

A Fresnel zone (English: fray-NEL), named after physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is one of a series of confocal prolate ellipsoidal regions of space between and around a transmitter and a receiver. The size of the calculated Fresnel zone at any...

Updated: October 20, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Zone_plate

Zone plate

A zone plate is a device used to focus light or other things exhibiting wave character. Unlike lenses or curved mirrors, zone plates use diffraction instead of refraction or reflection. Based on analysis by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel,...

Updated: December 23, 2025
en.wikipedia.org › Fresnel_zone_antenna

Fresnel zone antenna

Fresnel zone antennas are antennas that focus the signal by using the phase shifting property of the antenna surface or its shape. There are several types of Fresnel zone antennas, namely, Fresnel zone plate, offset Fresnel zone plate antennas,...

Updated: August 27, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Augustin-Jean_Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late...

Updated: July 29, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Fresnel_diffraction

Fresnel diffraction

In optics, the Fresnel diffraction equation for near-field diffraction is an approximation of the Kirchhoff–Fresnel diffraction that can be applied to the propagation of waves in the near field. It is used to calculate the diffraction pattern...

Updated: July 16, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Graphene_lens

Graphene lens

A graphene lens is an optical refraction device. Graphene's unique 2-D honeycomb contributes to its unique optical properties.

Updated: September 28, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Fresnel_number

Fresnel number

In optics, in particular scalar diffraction theory, the Fresnel number (F), named after the physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, is a dimensionless number relating to the pattern a beam of light forms on a surface when projected through an aperture.

Updated: September 15, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Fresnel_lens

Fresnel lens

A Fresnel lens ( FRAY-nel, -⁠nəl; FREN-el, -⁠əl; or fray-NEL) is a type of composite compact lens which reduces the amount of material required compared to a conventional lens by dividing the lens into a set of concentric annular sections. The...

Updated: September 30, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Fresnel_integral

Fresnel integral

The Fresnel integrals S(x) and C(x), and their auxiliary functions F(x) and G(x) are transcendental functions named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel that are used in optics and are closely related to the error function (erf). They arise in the...

Updated: August 21, 2026
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Satellite Internet access

Satellite Internet access is Internet access provided through communication satellites; if it can sustain high speeds, it is termed satellite broadband. Modern consumer grade satellite Internet service is typically provided to individual users...

Updated: September 29, 2026