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col·li·mate

(kol'i-māt)

To make parallel.

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How long does it take to collimate a Schmidt-Cassegrain?

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Modern commercial spectrographs typically combine one or more curved optical elements, whether reflective mirrors or refractive lenses, which collimate light to and focus dispersed light from a dispersive element onto a focal plane array detector.

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Designated the OPB733TR device, the infrared sensor uses a lensed IR LED and phototransistor elements to collimate the light beam, giving the device an optimizing detection range from 0.4" to 1.0" (10 to 25.4 mm).