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Collimating lens

A collimating lens is a lens used to gather together a parallel beam of light.

In the original spectroscope design in the early 19th century, light entered a slit and a collimating lens transformed the light into a thin beam of parallel rays. A prism then refracted the beam into its spectrum.

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