潛望鏡

潛望鏡（Periscope），是一種利用光線反射原理所製作的光學儀器，最常被用在潛水艇用以在水下觀察水面上的動靜。曾在塹壕戰中被用來從壕溝觀察敵軍動態。

潛望鏡物料:盒、镜片、量角器

Military handheld periscope optical design.
1 - Eyepiece
2 - Diagonal prism
3 - Handle
4 - 6 - Erecting lenses
5 - Periscope tube
7 - Field lens
8 - Lens
9 - Head diagonal prism
10 - Window

潛望鏡示意圖
Principle of the periscope.
A - Periscope using two plane mirrors.
B - Periscope using two right–angled prisms.
1 - 2 - Plane mirrors.
3 - 4 - Right–angled prisms.
5 - 6 - Observer eye.
7 - 8 - Periscope tube.
H - Periscope optical height.

Principle of the lens periscope.

A - Periscope using a single lens (L2) to correct image.

B - Periscope which uses two lenses (L2-L3) to correct image.

1-3 - Periscope window.

2-4 - Field stop or reticle.

P - Right–angled prisms (or plane mirrors).

L1 - Objective lens.

L2 - for A - L2 - L3 - for B - Image erecting lens.

L3 - L4 -for A - L4-L5- for B - Eyepiece.

L0 - Field lens.

y - Distant object.

H - Periscope optical height.

• Submarine monocular attack periscope.

• Zeiss submarine periscope optical design.

潜望镜的发明： 世界上最早记载潜望镜原理的古书，是公元前二世纪中国的《淮南万毕术》。书中记载了这样的一段话：“取大镜高悬，置水盘于其下，则见四邻矣。” 现代潜艇潜望镜是在20世纪初发明的。1906年德国海军建成第一艘潜艇时，已使用了相当完善的光学潜望镜，由物镜、转像系统和目镜等组成。

圖片

海軍使用潛望鏡

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  Officer at periscope in control room of a U.S. Navy submarine in World War II. The officer pictured is Captain Raymond W. Alexander, Sr. and the photo was taken in 1942.

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  Submarine monocular attack periscope

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  Torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze（英语：Japanese destroyer Yamakaze (1936)） photographed through periscope of USS Nautilus( USS Nautilus (SS-168)), 25 June 1942.

另見

• 望遠鏡
• 內視鏡

外部連接

維基教科書中的相關電子教程：Demo periscope

维基共享资源中相关的多媒体资源：潛望鏡

• United States Navy Navpers 16165, June 1979
• Simulation of a Periscope （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） at NTNUJAVA Virtual Physics Laboratory （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）