Abstract: The invention concerns a rotating missile emitting light pulses. The invention is characterized in that means are provided to interrupt said light pulses (5) when the rotational movement (3) of the missile (2) about its longitudinal axis (L-L) stops.

Abstract: A device intended to be associated, on the one hand, with a viewfinder, on the eyepiece side thereof, and, on the other hand, with a calculating mechanism, to form a system making it possible to determine at every instant that portion of a field sighted by the eye of an observer through the viewfinder. The device is arranged on the image side of the eyepiece of the viewfinder and includes a splitter element associated with a thick optical plate whose parallel faces are orthogonal to the optical axis of the finder.

Abstract: A spectroscopic ellipsometer comprises a wideband light source, together with a first optical system including a rotating polarizer which applies a parallel beam to a sample contained in an enclosure. The reflected beam is picked up by an analyzer in a second optical system which transmits said reflected beam to a monochromator which is followed by a photodetector which is connected to control electronics connected, in turn, to a microcomputer. An optical fiber is provided between the source and the first optical system. Advantageously, a second optical fiber provided between the second optical system and the monochromator.