A correcting “prism” for underwater viewpoints |
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| Authors: | WJ Van Sciver |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics and Marine Geotechnical Laboratory, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | The angular field observable in water by an observer in air depends on the configuration of the air-water interface. When the interface is a plane, the absolute limit to observable field is about
from the normal to the interface. A practical limit, because of lateral chromatic aberration is considerably less, approximately 30°. A conventionally used configuration in research submersibles, is a polymethyl methacrylate port with inner and outer surfaces parallel. This has the same optical limitations as the plane air-water interface. It is shown that if the inner and outer surfaces are not required to be parallel to each other, there are solutions which permit extending the observable field to nearly a full hemisphere with acceptably small distortion and lateral chromatic aberration. |
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