converging lens

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converging lens - lens such that a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus

lens, lens system, lense - a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images

sunglass - a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire

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The design is based on biconvex converging lens because there is plenty theoretical knowledge about it.

Design and implementation of lenses for shaping the beam of millimeter waves in free space

The proposed lens is a converging lens and has a flat profile (as opposed to a curved one as in the lenses based on TL networks [8,9]) with inhomogeneous index of refraction in the direction orthogonal to the optical axis.