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Fresnel lens: Quick Facts

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Also Known As stepped lens

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Cross section of a Fresnel lens indicating its construction
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Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist