Fraunhofer may refer to:
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Joseph von Fraunhofer
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (; ; 6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He also invented the spectroscope and developed diffract ...
(1787–1826), German physicist
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Fraunhofer (crater)
Fraunhofer is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the south-southwest of the walled plain Furnerius, in the southeastern part of the Moon. This crater appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, and is actually nearly circular.
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, a lunar crater
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Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society (german: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., lit=Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) is a German research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany ...
(Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), a large German research organization
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Fraunhofer diffraction
In optics, the Fraunhofer diffraction equation is used to model the diffraction of waves when plane waves are incident on a diffracting object, and the diffraction pattern is viewed at a sufficiently long distance (a distance satisfying Fraunhofer ...
, far-field diffraction
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Fraunhofer lines
In physics and optics, the Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral absorption lines named after the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826). The lines were originally observed as dark features (absorption lines) in the optical spectru ...
, spectral lines of the Sun
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Fraunhofer distance
The Fraunhofer distance, named after Joseph von Fraunhofer, is the value of:
:d = ,
where D is the largest dimension of the radiator (in the case of a magnetic loop antenna, the diameter) and is the wavelength of the radio wave. This distance pr ...
, between near field and far field
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