Acceptance Angle

Acceptance angle can refer to:

  • Half of the angular aperture of an optical system
  • Acceptance angle (optical fiber), the angle in an optical fiber below which rays are guided rays
  • Acceptance angle (solar concentrator)

Famous quotes containing the words acceptance and/or angle:

    “Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics—that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)