ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that the behaviour of light passing through various optical components. Optical components can be lenses, mirrors, prisms, beamsplitters, glass rods and tubes, filters, polarizers, and gratings. These components are used in the manufacture of optical devices and systems for many applications, such as telecommunications, imaging, scanning, and microscopy. The chapter presents a few cases involving different light sources passing through various optical components. Three types of light sources can be used in the experiment: laser, incandescent light, and halogen light. A comparison can be made between the light sources and the light images produced from the optical components. The ray optics laser set contains a laser ray box, a variety of optical components, and templates to simulate actual optical devices. The optical components are lenses, reflecting surfaces, rods, and prisms. The ray optics laser set uses a laser ray box that projects five sharp parallel laser beams of 635 nm monochromatic light at 2 cma part.
