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Optical pinhole

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An optical pinhole is a small aperture used to select a narrow part of a beam or approximate an optical point source. Its finite diameter and diffraction limit that approximation; an illuminated optical pinhole at a collimator's optical focus supplies a narrow bundle of nearly parallel light rays.

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