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Refraction (2,446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Principles of Optics. New York, NY: Pergamon Press INC. p. 37. Why does light slow down in water? - Fermilab Hecht, Eugene (2002). Optics. Addison-Wesley

Focus (optics) (493 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is a point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus

Reflection (physics) (2,263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

incident light. This is an important principle in the field of thin-film optics. Specular reflection forms images. Reflection from a flat surface forms

Narinder Singh Kapany (2,107 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist famously known as "Father of Fiber Optics" . Kapany is a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, known for coining and popularising the term.

Long-range optical wireless communication (4,002 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Atlantic Wall. The invention of lasers in the 1960s revolutionized free-space optics.[citation needed] Military organizations were particularly interested and

Adaptive optics (3,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique of precisely deforming a mirror in order to compensate for light distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes

Science in the medieval Islamic world (5,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Islamic physicists such as Ibn Al-Haytham, Al-Bīrūnī and others studied optics and mechanics as well as astronomy, and criticised Aristotle's view of motion

Backscatter (photography) (870 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

In photography, backscatter (also called near-camera reflection) is an optical phenomenon resulting in typically circular artifacts on an image, due to

Geometric albedo (1,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

direction of the light paths and is not a phase angle in its normal meaning in optics or electronics.) Diffuse scattering implies that radiation is reflected

Scattering (3,725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particle diameter to wavelength more than about 10, the laws of geometric optics are mostly sufficient to describe the interaction of light with the particle

Diffraction (6,613 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Multislice does it all—calculating the performance of nanofocusing X-ray optics". Optics Express. 25 (3): 1831–1846. Bibcode:2017OExpr..25.1831L. doi:10.1364/OE

Cardinal point (optics) (2,913 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system

Angle of incidence (optics) (402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The angle of incidence, in geometric optics, is the angle between a ray incident on a surface and the line perpendicular (at 90 degree angle) to the surface

Halo (optical phenomenon) (3,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

a hole in the sky". Atmospheric Optics. Retrieved 3 August 2016. Les Cowley. "Bottlinger's Rings". Atmospheric Optics. Retrieved 2017-06-26. Nance, Robert

Fly-by-wire (4,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drag-inducing aerodynamic trims in the elevators.[citation needed] Fly-by-optics is sometimes used instead of fly-by-wire because it offers a higher data

Wave interference (4,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Achamfuo-Yeboah, S.; Light R.; Clark M. (2014). "Widefield two laser interferometry". Optics Express. 22 (22): 27094–27101. Bibcode:2014OExpr..2227094P. doi:10.1364/OE

OPTICS algorithm (2,133 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Ordering points to identify the clustering structure (OPTICS) is an algorithm for finding density-based clusters in spatial data. It was presented in 1999

Snell's law (3,959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

glass, or air. In optics, the law is used in ray tracing to compute the angles of incidence or refraction, and in experimental optics to find the refractive

Schlieren photography (1,793 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cutoff pattern (essentially a multiplicity of knife edges) with focusing optics, while density gradients lying between the illumination pattern and the

Biomedical engineering (6,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

biology, chemistry, tissue engineering and materials science. Biomedical optics combines the principles of physics, engineering, and biology to study the

Normal (geometry) (2,664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In geometry, a normal is an object (e.g. a line, ray, or vector) that is perpendicular to a given object. For example, the normal line to a plane curve

Rod cell (1,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rod cells are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in lower light better than the other type of visual photoreceptor, cone cells

Charles K. Kao (8,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine

Laser (14,010 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

13, 2009). Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume V: Atmospheric Optics, Modulators, Fiber Optics, X-Ray and Neutron Optics. McGraw Hill Professional

Medical optical imaging (809 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Applied Optics. 46 (23): 5805–5822. Bibcode:2007ApOpt..46.5805F. doi:10.1364/ao.46.005805. PMID 17694130. Durduran, T; et al. (2010). "Diffuse optics for

Distortion (optics) (2,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

In geometric optics, distortion is a deviation from rectilinear projection; a projection in which straight lines in a scene remain straight in an image

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (1,211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (abbreviation: MPQ; German: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) is a part of the Max Planck Society which

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (5,735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Optics & Photonics – Erasmus Mundus MSc Program". ksop.idschools.kit.edu. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017. "KIT – Karlsruhe School of Optics

Objective (optics) (1,132 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

In optical engineering, an objective is an optical element that gathers light from an object being observed and focuses the light rays from it to produce

Rangefinder camera (2,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

imitations and derivatives), Contax cameras manufactured for Carl Zeiss Optics by camera subsidiary Zeiss-Ikon and, after Germany's defeat in World War

Institute of Physics (2,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and

Fluorite (3,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

apochromatic lenses, and particularly valuable in photographic optics. Fluorite optics are also usable in the far-ultraviolet and mid-infrared ranges

IEEE Photonics Society (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The IEEE Photonics Society, formerly the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institut d'optique Graduate School (901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Institut d'optique Graduate School ("Institute of optics"), nicknamed SupOptique or IOGS, is a graduate school of Paris-Saclay University and ParisTech

Red dot sight (2,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

design uses a red light-emitting diode (LED) at the focus of collimating optics, which generates a dot-style illuminated reticle that stays in alignment

Optical coherence tomography (10,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

coherence length of the light source and the latter being a function of the optics. The axial resolution of OCT is defined as where λ 0 {\displaystyle \lambda

Large Binocular Telescope (2,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

telescope. In the summer of 2010, the "First Light Adaptive Optics" (FLAO) – an adaptive optics system with a deformable secondary mirror rather than correcting

Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (2,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

telescope-optics.net. Notes on amateur telescope optics. Retrieved 2010-04-24. Rutten, Harrie; van Venrooij, Martin (2002). Telescope Optics. Willmann-Bell

Gigabit Ethernet (3,350 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distances up to 2 km over a pair of multi-mode fibers due to higher quality optics than a SX, running on 1310 nm wavelength lasers. It is easily confused with

Neuro-ophthalmology (1,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Neuro-ophthalmology is an academically-oriented subspecialty that merges the fields of neurology and ophthalmology, often dealing with complex systemic

Minolta (3,371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

company adopted its final name, an acronym for "Mechanism, Instruments, Optics, and Lenses by Tashima".[independent source needed] In 2003, Minolta merged

Telescope (3,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(0.003 mm) to 180 μm (0.18 mm) uses a mirror (reflecting optics). Also using reflecting optics, the Hubble Space Telescope with Wide Field Camera 3 can

Orbital angular momentum multiplexing (2,692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

larger number of channels, subject only to the constraint of real-world optics. The constraint has been clarified in terms of independent scattering channels

Organic light-emitting transistor (214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

An organic light-emitting transistor (OLET) is a form of transistor that emits light. These transistors have potential for digital displays and on-chip

Quantum computing (12,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

P.; Wallden, P. (2020). "Advances in quantum cryptography". Advances in Optics and Photonics. 12 (4): 1012–1236. arXiv:1906.01645. Bibcode:2020AdOP...12

Linear optical quantum computing (3,871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Linear optical quantum computing or linear optics quantum computation (LOQC), also photonic quantum computing (PQC), is a paradigm of quantum computation

Wuhan Optics Valley F.C. (1,600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wuhan Optics Valley Football Club (simplified Chinese: 武汉光谷; traditional Chinese: 武漢光谷; pinyin: Wǔhàn Guānggǔ) is a defunct football club that was located

Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS) is a research lab belonging to Indian Space Research Organisation. It involves in design and development of optics and sensor

Girish Saran Agarwal (915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

recognized leader in the field of quantum optics and also has made major contributions to the fields of nonlinear optics, nanophotonics and plasmonics. In 2013

Fiber-optic cable (3,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

All-dielectric self-supporting OSP: Fiber optic cable, outside plant MDU: Fiber optics cable, multiple dwelling unit The jacket material is application-specific

Total internal reflection (13,479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

light, a photon has a non-zero probability of crossing a gap, even if ray optics would say that its approach is too oblique. Another reason why internal

Optical coating (2,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

transmits light. These coatings have become a key technology in the field of optics. One type of optical coating is an anti-reflective coating, which reduces

Thales Optronics (508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Stroud, which was based in Glasgow. Pilkington PE later became Thales Optics Ltd., which was divested from Thales in December 2005 as Qioptiq Ltd. In

Wedge prism (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

though high-precision optics, such as optical flats, may be lapped and polished to extremely high levels of parallelism, nearly all optics with parallel faces

Light beam (401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Association (IrDA) standards Infrared remote control Security alarms Fibre optics Laser pointer Laser sight List of applications for lasers Beam diameter

Radiation pattern (2,169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

antenna or other source. Particularly in the fields of fiber optics, lasers, and integrated optics, the term radiation pattern may also be used as a synonym

Fiber laser (2,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Cat. No.99TH8464). Vol. 2. Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting. LEOS '99. IEEE

Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (2,451 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arcseconds at 30 arcminutes off-axis. The mirror is based on ESA's Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) technology. SPO provides an excellent ratio of collecting area to

Fiber-optic communication (7,591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

communication.[better source needed] First developed in the 1970s, fiber-optics have revolutionized the telecommunications industry and have played a major

Brewster's angle (2,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or prisms with their surfaces at the Brewster angle are commonly used in optics and laser physics in particular. The polarized laser light enters the prism

Rayleigh scattering (2,849 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

papers; see Works. Young, Andrew T (1981). "Rayleigh scattering". Applied Optics. 20 (4): 533–5. Bibcode:1981ApOpt..20..533Y. doi:10.1364/AO.20.000533. PMID 20309152

Technology company (456 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

services, which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy, and Internet-related services such as cloud storage and e-commerce

List of physics awards (140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Outstanding contributions in the fields of atoms, molecules and quantum optics, and condensed matter International Henri Poincaré Prize International Association

Multiple-prism grating laser oscillator (882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

oscillator, Appl. Opt. 37, 3987–3989 (1998). F. J. Duarte, Tunable Laser Optics, 2nd Ed. (CRC, New York, 2015). F. J. Duarte, Multiple-prism grating solid-state

Sonatel (202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

telecommunications. The company is involved in the construction of fiber optics networks in Africa and manages 2,200 kilometers of fiber cable in Senegal

Waveguide (optics) (1,922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

optical waveguides can be described using the concepts of geometrical or ray optics, as illustrated in the diagram. Light passing into a medium with higher

NuSTAR (2,971 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

employ grazing incidence optics to be able to focus X-rays. For this two conical approximation Wolter telescope design optics with 10.15 m (33.3 ft) focal

Fresnel imager (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ultra-lightweight design for a space telescope that uses a Fresnel array as primary optics instead of a typical lens. It focuses light with a thin opaque foil sheet

List of reflected light sources (104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of reflected sources of light examples in contrast to the List of light sources. The list is oriented towards visible light reflection.

Projection (468 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up projection, projecting, projective, or projector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Projection or projections may refer to: Projection (physics)

Nicolaas Bloembergen (2,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at Harvard

Phase space (2,123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extensively used in nonimaging optics, the branch of optics devoted to illumination. It is also an important concept in Hamiltonian optics. In medicine and bioengineering

Attenuation (2,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

attenuation is an exponential function of the path length through the medium. In optics and in chemical spectroscopy, this is known as the Beer–Lambert law. In

Pinhole camera (3,105 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

context of optics was found in James Ferguson's 1764 book Lectures on select subjects in mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, and optics. The first known

Wuhan East railway station (306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

started on July 28, 2015. And at first this new railway station was named Optics valley railway station (Chinese: 光谷火车站). It was renamed as Wuhan East railway

Light tube (3,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contain the light by total internal reflection. Principles of nonimaging optics govern the flow of light through them. Manufacturing custom designed infrared

Gemini Observatory (3,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

They utilize adaptive optics technology to counteract atmospheric blurring. Notably, Gemini leads in wide-field adaptive optics assisted infrared imaging

Modulational instability (1,750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In the fields of nonlinear optics and fluid dynamics, modulational instability or sideband instability is a phenomenon whereby deviations from a periodic

Ernst Ruska (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Ernst Ruska was

Tessar (2,158 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

The Tessar is a photographic lens design conceived by the German physicist Dr. Paul Rudolph in 1902 while he worked at the Zeiss optical company and patented

Optical tweezers (9,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nanochemistry (to study and build materials from single molecules), quantum optics and quantum optomechanics (to study the interaction of single particles

Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (667 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

H (Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation) IEE Proceedings H (Microwaves, Optics and Antennas) IEE Proceedings I (Communications, Speech and Vision) IEE

Zinc sulfide (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sulfide can be transparent, and it is used as a window for visible optics and infrared optics. ZnS exists in two main crystalline forms. This dualism is an

Ibn Sahl (mathematician) (952 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Muslim scholar known to have studied Ptolemy's Optics, and as such an important precursor to the Book of Optics by Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen), written some thirty

Zinc sulfide (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sulfide can be transparent, and it is used as a window for visible optics and infrared optics. ZnS exists in two main crystalline forms. This dualism is an

Alhazen's problem (792 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Alhazen's billiard problem, is a mathematical problem in geometrical optics first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD. It is named for the 11th-century

Phased-array optics (788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Phased-array optics is the technology of controlling the phase and amplitude of light waves transmitting, reflecting, or captured (received) by a two-dimensional

Optical tweezers (9,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nanochemistry (to study and build materials from single molecules), quantum optics and quantum optomechanics (to study the interaction of single particles

Quantum metrology (1,457 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Heisenberg-limited parameter estimation" (PDF). Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 6 (8). IOP Publishing: S811 – S815. arXiv:quant-ph/0402083

Beer–Lambert law (3,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proportional to the solute concentration. Other applications appear in physical optics, where it quantifies astronomical extinction and the absorption of photons

Iran Electronics Industries (681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It is a diversified organization with operations in electronics, optics, electro-optics, medical equipment, communications, computer and semiconductors

Ellen Ochoa (1,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exploration. At Sandia National Laboratories, she applied what she knew about optics to the research being done on nuclear weapons. She had three patents for

Lenticular lens (1,434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017. DIY Printed Holographic Display (Lenticular Optics Explained), 7 March 2021, archived from the original on 21 December 2021

PerkinElmer (3,314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

corporation that was founded in 1937 and originally focused on precision optics. Over the years it went into and out of several different businesses via

Cleomedes (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cleomedes (Greek: Κλεομήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies (Κυκλικὴ θεωρία μετεώρων)

Rajiah Simon (104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for pioneering work in quantum optics. Simon and collaborators initiated the quantum theory of charged-particle beam optics by working out the focusing action

E. C. George Sudarshan (1,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contribution to the field of quantum optics. His theorem proves the equivalence of classical wave optics to quantum optics. The theorem makes use of the Sudarshan

Paraxial approximation (353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In geometric optics, the paraxial approximation is a small-angle approximation used in Gaussian optics and ray tracing of light through an optical system

Germanium (7,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

germanium. Presently, the major end uses are fibre-optic systems, infrared optics, solar cell applications, and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Germanium compounds

Binoculars (11,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vision seems to have been explored. Most early binoculars used Galilean optics; that is, they used a convex objective and a concave eyepiece lens. The

Bausch & Lomb (2,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cinema was being superseded by television, Bausch & Lomb developed improved optics for the CinemaScope process, which popularized the film-based anamorphic

2022 IPSC Handgun World Shoot (536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

completed. It was the first World Shoot featuring the popular Production Optics divisions, and was the nineteenth IPSC Handgun World Shoot. The championship

Astigmatism (4,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

properties. In some people, the external optics may have the greater influence, and in other people, the internal optics may predominate. Importantly, the axes

Liquid-crystal laser (2,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cerqua; Marshall; Schmid; Guardalben; Skerrett (1988). "Liquid-crystal laser optics: design, fabrication, and performance". Journal of the Optical Society of

ESO 3.6 m Telescope (945 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scientific achievements and presented ADONIS, one of the first adaptive optics system available to the astronomical community in the 1980s. Since 22, the

Schneider Kreuznach (8,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referred to as Schneider) is a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics. The company was founded on 18 January 1913 by Joseph Schneider as Optische

FOXSI Sounding Rocket (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI, is a sounding rocket payload built by UC Berkeley and led by Säm Krucker to test high energy grazing-incidence

Four-wave mixing (1,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Four-wave mixing (FWM) is an intermodulation phenomenon in nonlinear optics, whereby interactions between two or three wavelengths produce two or one new

2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg, Germany, from 16 to 26 August 2018. Both men's and women's

Thomas William Webb (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

editions have become collectors items and are quite rare. Webb also wrote Optics Without Mathematics (1883) and The Sun: A Familiar Description of His Phenomena

Very Large Telescope (5,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and high-resolution imaging. In particular, the VLT has several adaptive optics systems, which correct for the effects of atmospheric turbulence, providing

Hermann A. Haus (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

major conference and symposium on laser and quantum electronics and quantum optics around the world. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1995 and

Blur (471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up blur, blurry, blurred, or blurring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blur, Blurry, Blurring, Blurred or Blurr, may refer to: Bokeh, the aesthetic

Optometry (7,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

traced back to the early studies on optics and image formation by the eye. The origins of optical science (optics, as taught in a basic physics class)

Mass-to-charge ratio (2,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used in the electrodynamics of charged particles, e.g. in electron optics and ion optics. It appears in the scientific fields of electron microscopy, cathode

Ajoy Ghatak (765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

170 research papers and more than 20 books. His undergraduate textbook on Optics has been translated to Chinese and Persian and his monograph on Inhomogeneous

Dermo-optical perception (1,754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dermo-optical perception (DOP, also known as dermal vision, dermo-optics, skin vision, skin reading, finger vision, cutaneous perception, digital sight

Peter Zoller (1,890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Austria. He is professor at the University of Innsbruck and works on quantum optics and quantum information and is best known for his pioneering research on

Schneider Kreuznach (8,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referred to as Schneider) is a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics. The company was founded on 18 January 1913 by Joseph Schneider as Optische

Quantum dynamics (564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is relevant for burgeoning fields, such as quantum computing and atomic optics. In mathematics, quantum dynamics is the study of the mathematics behind

Hamburg Towers (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the BBL for the first time. Since 2014, their home arena is the Edel-optics.de Arena in Wilhelmsburg. It has capacity for 3,400 people. In February

Roy J. Glauber (1,692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bulbs (see blackbody). His theories are widely used in the field of quantum optics. In statistical physics he pioneered the study of the dynamics of first-order

Blur (471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up blur, blurry, blurred, or blurring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blur, Blurry, Blurring, Blurred or Blurr, may refer to: Bokeh, the aesthetic

Fibre-optic gyroscope (624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interference pattern which is measured photometrically. Beam splitting optics split light from a laser diode (or other laser light source) into two waves

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Quantum optics Cavity QED Circuit QED Linear optical QC KLM protocol Ultracold atoms Neutral atom QC Trapped-ion QC Spin-based Kane QC Spin qubit QC NV

Camera obscura (8,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that the projection of inverted images is actually a physical principle of optics that predates the emergence of life (rather than a biological or technological

Ian Walmsley (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Royal Society in 2012 for his contributions to quantum optics and ultrafast optics, including his development of the spectral phase interferometry

Hubble Space Telescope (22,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

spherical aberration that compromised the telescope's capabilities. The optics were corrected to their intended quality by a servicing mission, STS-61

Johnson & Johnson Vision (1,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

products in approximately 60 countries. In February 2017, Abbott Medical Optics changed its name to Johnson & Johnson Vision following its $4.3 billion

Sun dog (2,721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Atmospheric Optics. Retrieved 16 May 2017. "Sundog formation". Atmospheric Optics. Retrieved 16 May 2017. "Sundog Colours". Atmospheric Optics. Retrieved

Extremely Large Telescope (5,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(14 ft) diameter secondary mirror. The telescope is equipped with adaptive optics, six laser guide star units, and various large-scale scientific instruments

Invisibility (1,871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instead making use of radio, infrared or ultraviolet wavelengths. In illusion optics, invisibility is a special case of illusion effects: the illusion of free

Bruker (1,633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scientific Instruments (Bruker AXS, Bruker BioSpin, Bruker Daltonics and Bruker Optics) and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) divisions. In April 2010

Fresnel equations (8,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hamilton's diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics", in E. Wolf (ed.), Progress in Optics, vol. 50, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007, pp. 13–50, doi:10

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the United States. It was originally established as the Klein School of Optics in 1894 by ophthalmologist August Andreas Klein. The college moved to several

Theodor W. Hänsch (1,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hänsch is Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (quantum optics) and Professor of experimental physics and laser spectroscopy at the Ludwig-Maximilians

Fast Ethernet (2,863 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distances up to 40 km over a pair of single-mode fibers due to higher quality optics than a LX10, running on 1310 nm wavelength lasers. 100BASE-EX is not a formal

Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (1,504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) is an optical correction instrument designed and built by NASA. It was created to correct

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Yasen Petrov Petrov (Bulgarian: Ясен Петров Петров; born 23 June 1968) is a Bulgarian former football player. His nickname is Giannini from Plovdiv. Born

Endomicroscopy (1,703 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the source through an optical fibre to a flexible hand-held probe. Optics in the probe focus the laser to a spot in the tissue, exciting fluorescence

GEO600 (2,830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Leibniz Universität Hannover, along with University of Glasgow,

Bushnell Corporation (1,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bushnell Corporation is an American firm that specializes in sporting optics and outdoor products. It is based in Overland Park, Kansas and is a wholly-owned

JEOL (1,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

company, Kazato and Ito chose to found a new organization. The Japan Electron Optics Laboratory Company, Limited (Nihon Denshi Kogaku Kenkyujo) was founded in

Interferometry (10,987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an important investigative technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, spectroscopy

Dan Walls (814 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

May 1999) was a New Zealand theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics. Walls gained a BSc in physics and mathematics and a first class honours

GEO600 (2,830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Leibniz Universität Hannover, along with University of Glasgow,

KLM protocol (3,048 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Utilizing encoding in scalable linear optics quantum computing". Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 6 (12). IOP Publishing: 533–541.

Specular reflection (1,780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interfaces in an analogous fashion to x-ray reflectivity. Geometric optics Hamiltonian optics Reflection coefficient Reflection (mathematics) Specular highlight

3D optical data storage (4,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

involves nonlinear data reading and writing methods, in particular nonlinear optics. 3D optical data storage is related to (and competes with) holographic data

History of the telescope (9,307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were followed by many centuries of writings on optics, including Ptolemy (2nd century) in his Optics, who wrote about the properties of light including

International Electrotechnical Commission (1,405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

distribution to home appliances and office equipment, semiconductors, fibre optics, batteries, solar energy, nanotechnology, and marine energy, as well as

Janus laser (208 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Enrique; Winsor, Harry V. (eds.). "Beam transport optics for laser fusion". Optics in Adverse Environments. Optics in Adverse Environments I. 121: 111. Bibcode:1978SPIE

Exploration of Neptune (2,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Keck telescope using adaptive optics. After Voyager 2 visited Saturn successfully, it was decided to fund further

Newton (Blake) (414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death." Newton's theory of optics was especially offensive to Blake, who made a clear distinction between

Quantum amplifier (1,855 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kouznetsov; D. Rohrlich (1997). "Quantum noise in the mapping of phase space". Optics and Spectroscopy. 82 (6): 909–913. Bibcode:1997OptSp..82..909K. Archived

Perspective (graphical) (3,570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

skenographia, so this art was not confined merely to the stage. Euclid in his Optics (c. 300 BC) argues correctly that the perceived size of an object is not

Physical Review B (602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical

Electrostatic lens (1,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Charged Particle Optics, Second Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-4555-0. A El-Kareh (2 December 2012). Electron Beams, Lenses, and Optics. Elsevier Science

Cable jetting (809 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Cable jetting is a technique to install cables in ducts. It is commonly used to install cables with optical fibers in underground polyethylene ducts and

Electron microscope (4,670 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. They use electron optics that are analogous to the glass lenses of an optical light microscope to

Crystal ball (1,250 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball commonly used in fortune-telling. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying

Itajubá (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on industry and agriculture. There are industries of auto parts, fiber optics, textile, electronic components, helicopters (Helibrás), and military weapons

Albedo (7,458 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

}}_{\text{OC}}>0.07\end{cases}}} . The term albedo was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria. Bio-geoengineering

DxO Labs (2,185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

million Euros of financing in venture capital. When DO Labs released DxO Optics Pro in 2004, which became DxO PhotoLab in 2017, it was the first product

PL-5 (428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sidewinder. The PL-5 was designed and developed at China's Luoyang Electro-Optics Technology Development Centre (EOTDC), also known as Institute 612; its

Astigmatism (optical systems) (2,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

certain types of telescope. Some telescopes deliberately use non-spherical optics to overcome this phenomenon.[why?][failed verification] In the analysis

Reflecting telescope (3,948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

image-forming optics. The idea that curved mirrors behave like lenses dates back at least to Alhazen's 11th century treatise on optics, works that had

Raman scattering (4,126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

List of surface analysis methods National Science Day (India) Nonlinear optics Raman laser Raman spectroscopy Resonance Raman spectroscopy (RR) Scattering

Soliton (4,513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

these three properties (for instance, the 'light bullets' of nonlinear optics are often called solitons despite losing energy during interaction). Dispersion

Huygens–Fresnel principle (2,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

solutions to diffraction problems are known however, and most problems in optics are adequately treated using the Huygens-Fresnel principle.: 370 In 1939

Fresnel lens (6,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may be used as components of Köhler illumination optics resulting in very effective nonimaging optics Fresnel-Köhler (FK) solar concentrators. Linear A

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Wuhan. This line connects Wuchang with the eastern Optics Valley. Construction of the first section Optics Valley section started on October 28, 2014. "First

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Wuhan. This line connects Wuchang with the eastern Optics Valley. Construction of the first section Optics Valley section started on October 28, 2014. "First

Tyndall effect (1,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tyndall effect is light scattering by particles in a colloid such as a very fine suspension (a sol). Also known as Tyndall scattering, it is similar

Reflecting telescope (3,948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

image-forming optics. The idea that curved mirrors behave like lenses dates back at least to Alhazen's 11th century treatise on optics, works that had

Niels Bohr Institute (2,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interactions between them. The Quantum Optics section conducts experimental and theoretical research in Quantum Optics, in particular, in Quantum Information

Active optics (1,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Active optics is a technology used with reflecting telescopes developed in the 1980s, which actively shapes a telescope's mirrors to prevent deformation

2014 Wuhan Open (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the WTA Premier 5 series of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China between 21 and 27 September

Zoom (579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up Zoom, zoom, zoom in, zoom out, or zooming in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zoom may refer to: Zoom (2006 film), starring Tim Allen Zoom (2015

Robert L. Byer (755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University. He has conducted research and taught classes in lasers and nonlinear optics at Stanford University since 1969. He has made numerous contributions to

JDSU (921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

solutions for authentication and decorative applications, and other custom optics. It was headquartered in Milpitas, California. In August 2015, JDSU split

Fresnel lens (6,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

may be used as components of Köhler illumination optics resulting in very effective nonimaging optics Fresnel-Köhler (FK) solar concentrators. Linear A

Sunny Optical (1,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Optoelectronic (Chinese: 余姚光电).: 29–30 At that time, the university designed the optics and the factory manufactured them. In 1993, Yuyao Optoelectronic and other

Kramers–Kronig relations (3,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(2005). "Nonlinear Optics Basics. Kramers–Kronig Relations in Nonlinear Optics". In Robert D. Guenther (ed.). Encyclopedia of Modern Optics. Amsterdam: Academic

Titanium-sapphire laser (1,541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

damage to the optics in the amplifier. Then the pulse is optically amplified and recompressed in time to form a short, localized pulse. All optics after this

Jenoptik (2,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brand. In May 2005, Jenoptik inaugurated a research centre for plastic optics in Triptis, Thuringia. By this time, Jena-Optronik GmbH, established in

Lambertian reflectance (584 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lambertian reflectance is the property that defines an ideal "matte" or diffusely reflecting surface. The apparent brightness of a Lambertian surface to

John Tyndall Award (501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology". The award is named after John Tyndall (1820-1893), who demonstrated

Webcam (3,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

impact image sharpness to a great extent. Most models use simple, focal-free optics (fixed focus, factory-set for the usual distance from the monitor to which

Condenser (optics) (1,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

electrons in electron microscopy, neutron radiation, and synchrotron radiation optics. Condensers are located above the light source and under the sample in an

2008 Chinese Super League (360 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

end of the 2007 season, Xiamen Lanshi were relegated to League One. Wuhan Optics Valley withdrew from the league and folded. At the end of the season, Liaoning

Objective (141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Objectivity, the quality of being confirmed independently of a mind. Objective (optics), an element in a camera or microscope The Objective, a 2008 science fiction

Astronomical interferometer (2,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fraction of a wavelength over long optical paths, requiring very precise optics. Practical infrared and optical astronomical interferometers have only recently

Birefringence (6,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hamilton's diabolical point at the heart of crystal optics", in E. Wolf (ed.), Progress in Optics, vol. 50, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007, pp. 13–50, doi:10

Prism (483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prisms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prism usually refers to: Prism (optics), a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light

Magneto-optic effect (1,277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

magnetically-controlled nonlinear optical transmittance in multi-wall carbon nanotubes". Optics Express. 24 (17): 19552–19557. Bibcode:2016OExpr..2419552G. doi:10.1364/OE

Electronic media (3,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

introduction of fiber optics, wireless transmission, satellite transmission, Free Space Optics, and the internet. Fiber optics was first developed in

2017 Wuhan Open (252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Premier 5 tournaments of the 2017 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China. Rankings are as of September

Network switch (2,839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

applications. With the advent of increased speeds together with Co-packaged optics (CPO), which bring the transceivers close to the switching chip of the switch

Safilo (1,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

under its own five house brands and 32 licensed brands, including Smith Optics since 1996. Safilo's products are manufactured in its own Italian facilities

Computer-generated holography (2,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adjustable phase and brightness. Such displays have been called phased array optics. Further progress in nanotechnology is required to build them. Currently

Ørgreen Optics (246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ørgreen Optics is a Danish eyewear company based in Copenhagen. They are most commonly known for their colour combinations, Danish design and Japanese-made

Optometry and Vision Science (229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Optometry in 1941, then to the American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics in 1974, before obtaining its current title in 1989. The editor-in-chief

Gérard Mourou (1,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Electronics Award 2005 – Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics 2009 – Charles Hard Townes Award by the OSA 2016 – Frederic Ives Medal 2016

Anamorphic format (4,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shape") with the prefix aná ("back, again"). The process of anamorphosing optics was developed by Henri Chrétien during World War I to provide a wide angle

Confocal microscopy (5,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

genetics to microbiology and developmental biology. It is also used in quantum optics and nano-crystal imaging and spectroscopy. Clinically, CLSM is used in the

Nokia XR20 (102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nokia XR20 is also the last Nokia-branded smartphone that utilizes Zeiss optics due to HMD Global and Zeiss mutually parting way from the partnership. Nokia

Nokia XR20 (102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nokia XR20 is also the last Nokia-branded smartphone that utilizes Zeiss optics due to HMD Global and Zeiss mutually parting way from the partnership. Nokia

Zeng Cheng (850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Zeng Cheng (Chinese: 曾诚; pinyin: Zēng Chéng; born 8 January 1987) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super

Mirror image (1,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physics, mirror images are investigated in the subject called geometrical optics. More fundamentally in geometry and mathematics they form the principal

Pentaprism (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A pentaprism is a five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by a constant 90°, even if the entry beam is not at 90° to the prism. The

Argus laser (746 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

can easily exceed the optical damage threshold of laser glass and other optics, severely damaging them by creating pits, cracks and grey tracks through

DBSCAN (3,492 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

this distance of each other. Alternatively, an OPTICS plot can be used to choose ε, but then the OPTICS algorithm itself can be used to cluster the data

Applied Physics B (309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

includes laser physics, optical & laser materials, linear optics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and photonic devices. Interest also includes laser spectroscopy

Samyang Optics (924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Samyang Optics is a South Korean manufacturer of camera lenses for several major brands of third-party mounts for still photography and video cameras.

Laboratory for Laser Energetics (1,541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

building with the Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and the Center for Optics Manufacturing. The Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser

Leupold & Stevens (1,084 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generation of ownership. In 2008, Leupold & Stevens purchased Redfield Optics along with its brand name and all intellectual property rights. In 2010

2019 Wuhan Open (301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Premier 5 tournaments of the 2019 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China. Rankings are as of September

2016 Wuhan Open (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Premier 5 tournaments of the 2016 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China. Rankings are as of September

Fiberscope (882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

human body. Guiding of light by refraction, the principle that makes fiber optics possible, was first demonstrated by Daniel Colladon and Jacques Babinet

Germanium tetrachloride (552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Germanium tetrachloride is a colourless, fuming liquid with a peculiar, acidic odour. It is used as an intermediate in the production of purified germanium

Thin-film interference (3,238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interference spectroscopy Thin-film optics Transfer-matrix method (optics) Stavenga, D. G. (2014). "Thin Film and Multilayer Optics Cause Structural Colors of

Filter (828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Filtration is a physical process that separates solid matter and fluid from a mixture. Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the

Optical lattice (2,434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

optical lattice with tunable spacing: transport and static properties". Optics Express. 13 (11): 4303–4313. arXiv:cond-mat/0505029. Bibcode:2005OExpr.

Telus Optik TV (935 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

clients, with FTTN implementations using telephone lines instead of fibre optics for a portion of the connection. Telus launched IPTV service in November

Leica Microsystems (422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

50°33′07″N 08°29′52″E / 50.55194°N 8.49778°E / 50.55194; 8.49778 Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer

Inelastic scattering (660 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In chemistry, nuclear physics, and particle physics, inelastic scattering is a process in which the internal states of a particle or a system of particles

Microlens (2,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

integrated circuit industry, such as wafer-level optics. The study of such diffracting lenses is known as binary optics. Micro-lenses in recent imaging chips have

MGM-157 EFOGM (174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

developed for the U.S. Army during the 1980s and 1990s to test the use of fiber optics in missiles. The missile was launched vertically and manually controlled

Night-vision device (6,768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

image intensifier tubes (350-1100 nm) Optics 1 AN/PAS-34 E-COSI (Enhanced Clip-On SWIR Imager) (900-1700 nm) Optics 1 COSMO (Clip-On SWIR Monocular) Photonis'

Mullard Space Science Laboratory (1,299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

co-ordinates Postgraduate training for a number of Faraday Partnerships. The Smart Optics Faraday Partnership is an active network of more than 100 businesses and

Boson sampling (7,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

says that linear optics with adaptive measurements is universal for the class BQP. It also relies on the following facts: Linear optics with postselected

Kerr effect (2,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Nonlinear refraction measurements of materials using the moiré deflectometry"". Optics Communications. 357: 200–201. Bibcode:2015OptCo.357..200R. doi:10.1016/j

Bond albedo (832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Bond albedo (also called spheric albedo, planetary albedo, and bolometric albedo), named after the American astronomer George Phillips Bond (1825–1865)

Kerr effect (2,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Nonlinear refraction measurements of materials using the moiré deflectometry"". Optics Communications. 357: 200–201. Bibcode:2015OptCo.357..200R. doi:10.1016/j

Virtual reality headset (2,971 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

motion controllers and positional tracking with 6DOF. There are different optics and visual qualities that affect how an individual perceives the image quality

Scope mount (3,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– Optics info Gradišnik, Andraž (2022-08-24). "Aimpoint Acro C-2 Footprint". Optics Trade Blog. Retrieved 2022-10-16. "Aimpoint ACRO Mounts – Optics-Trade"

Cooke Optics (791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cooke Optics Ltd. is a camera lens manufacturing company based in Leicester. The foundation of Cooke Optics is coincident with Taylor, Taylor and Hobson

Cartosat-1 (777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cartosat-1 (formerly IRS-P5) is a stereoscopic Earth observation satellite in a Sun-synchronous orbit, and the first one of the Cartosat series of satellites

Intensity (360 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up intensity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Intensity may refer to: Strength (disambiguation) Amplitude Level (disambiguation) Magnitude (disambiguation)

100 Gigabit Ethernet (7,149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

25 Gbit/s optics (100GBASE-LR4 and 100GBASE-ER4) and the 10 km 40 Gbit/s objective with four wavelengths (around 1310 nm) of 10 Gbit/s optics (40GBASE-LR4)

Sodium chloride (3,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(2000). "Chapter 11: Optical Materials: Visible and Infrared". Electro-optics Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. p. 11.20. ISBN 0-07-068716-1

Time reversibility (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In mathematics and physics, time-reversibility is the property of a process whose governing rules remain unchanged when the direction of its sequence of

Steady state (1,561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adjustment and regulation mechanisms make homeostasis possible. In fiber optics, "steady state" is a synonym for equilibrium mode distribution. In pharmacokinetics

Signal reflection (519 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

In telecommunications, signal reflection happens when a signal is transmitted along a transmission medium (such as a copper cable or an optical fiber)

W. M. Keck Observatory (2,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that allowed the construction of the Keck telescopes was the use of active optics to operate smaller mirror segments as a single, contiguous mirror. A mirror

Phased array (5,291 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used in acoustics is such applications as phased array ultrasonics, and in optics. The term "phased array" is also used to a lesser extent for unsteered array

FEI Company (821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1973. In 1978, Dr. J.H. Orloff, a research specialist in electrostatic optics for field emission ion and electron sources, joined the company as its fourth

List of Institution of Engineering and Technology academic journals (455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

IEE Journal on Electronic Circuits and Systems IEE Journal on Microwaves, Optics and Acoustics IEE Journal on Solid-State and Electron Devices IEE Proceedings

Local outlier factor (1,634 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

with respect to its neighbours. LOF shares some concepts with DBSCAN and OPTICS such as the concepts of "core distance" and "reachability distance", which

Optics Valley Square station (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Optics Valley Square Station (Chinese: 光谷广场站) is a station of Line 2 of the Wuhan Metro. It served as the southeastern terminus of the line until February

John Marburger (2,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1966, specializing in the theoretical physics of nonlinear optics and quantum optics, and co-founded the Center for Laser Studies at that institution

IPSC Danish Handgun Championship (263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Production, Standard og Production Optics 2018". Retrieved February 26, 2020. "DM IPSC, Revolver, Classic, Production Optics Light, Standard 2019". Retrieved

Nature Photonics (134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group. The editor-in-chief is Oliver Graydon. The journal covers

Ammon, Idaho (1,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ammon is a suburb city in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States. As of the 2010 US Census, the population of Ammon was 13,816. By the 2020 census, Ammon's

Astronomical seeing (3,902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

many large scientific ground-based optical telescopes include adaptive optics to overcome seeing. The strength of seeing is often characterized by the

Raymond Wilson (physicist) (470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

2018) was an English physicist and telescope optics designer, best known for pioneering the use of active optics in large telescopes. Wilson's first degree

ELCAN Optical Technologies (265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Optical Technologies, also simply ELCAN (Ernst Leitz CANada), is a Canadian optics and electronics manufacturing company owned by American defense contractor

Anurag Sharma (physicist) (2,033 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

books viz. Guided Wave Optics: Selected Topics, Understanding Fiber Optics on a PC, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics: Selected

Double-slit experiment (8,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

FA and White HE, Fundamentals of Optics, 1967, McGraw Hill, New York Longhurst RS, Physical and Geometrical Optics, 1967, 2nd Edition, Longmans Zee,

Stop (687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up stop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stop may refer to: Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States Stop (Rogatica), a

HAT-P-6 (689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brighter than the Sun. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at the MMT Observatory turned out negative. The name Sterrennacht (Starry

Canon Inc. (4,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Canon Inc. (Japanese: キヤノン株式会社; Hepburn: Kyanon kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in

List of physics journals (893 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Neurophotonics Optica Optical Engineering Optics Communications Optics Express Optics Letters Progress in Optics Computational Materials Science Computer

Anton Zeilinger (4,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University of Vienna and senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most of his

Stop (687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Look up stop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stop may refer to: Stop, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States Stop (Rogatica), a

Omega Andromedae (687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an F-type star. In 2008, the companion star was resolved using adaptive optics at the Lick Observatory. Later observations showed the magnitude difference

Magenta (2,358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Magenta (/məˈdʒɛntə/) is a purple-red color. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located precisely midway between

Xiaowei Zhuang (1,615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Xiaowei Zhuang (simplified Chinese: 庄小威; traditional Chinese: 莊小威; pinyin: Zhuāng Xiǎowēi; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is

Rabi cycle (2,365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

coupled to an optical driving field. The effect is important in quantum optics, magnetic resonance, and quantum computing, and is named after Isidor Isaac

2018 Wuhan Open (246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Premier 5 tournaments of the 2018 WTA Tour. The tournament was held at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China. Rankings are as of September

HAT-P-9 (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

constellation Auriga. A search for a binary companion star using adaptive optics at the MMT Observatory was negative. The star HAT-P-9 is named Tevel. The

Journal of Physics B (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Proceedings of the Physical Society. In 2006, the Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics was merged with the Journal of Physics B. The editor-in-chief

Ernst Leitz GmbH (803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Leitz GmbH was a German corporation based in Wetzlar, a German centre for optics as well as an important location for the precision engineering industry

Aerial perspective (907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vinci to portray what was observed in nature and evident in his interest in optics. The technique allows a painter to capture the effect that atmosphere has

Deconvolution (1,975 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

similar results. The technique is closely related to linear prediction. In optics and imaging, the term "deconvolution" is specifically used to refer to the

Phase curve (astronomy) (2,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

In astronomy, a phase curve describes the brightness of a reflecting body as a function of its phase angle (the arc subtended by the observer and the Sun

Optical depth (1,595 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

In physics, optical depth or optical thickness is the natural logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a material. Thus

PLATO (spacecraft) (1,671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is a space telescope under development by the European Space Agency for launch in 2026. It is the

Electron optics (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Electron optics is a mathematical framework for the calculation of electron trajectories in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The term optics is used

International Colour Association (780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Commission for Optics (ICO), regarding issues concerned with colour. The AIC will neither duplicate

Giant Magellan Telescope (3,774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have three modes of adaptive optics. Ground Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO): The Gregorian design and integrated adaptive optics system allow ground layer atmospheric

Subaru Telescope (2,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fiber optics to take spectra of up to 400 objects simultaneously. Mounts at the prime focus. High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics (HiCIAO)

Large Latin American Millimeter Array (1,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Large Latin American Millimeter Array (LLAMA) is a single-dish 12 m Nasmyth optics antenna which is under construction in the Puna de Atacama desert in the

Fiber-optic display (168 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A fiber-optic display is a light-emitting display that uses fiber optics to display images or text. Fiber-optic displays can either be static or dynamic

Hanwha Vision (1,006 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

helicopters. It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment. In 1996 it developed

Iowa Communications Network (1,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Iowa Communications Network (ICN) is a state-administered fiber optics network designed to provide equal access to citizens including Iowans with modern

Displacement operator (824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the displacement operator for one mode is the shift operator in quantum optics, D ^ ( α ) = exp ⁡ ( α a ^ † − α ∗ a ^ ) {\displaystyle {\hat {D}}(\alpha

Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (2,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

astronomy, although they are also heavily used in the field of quantum optics. In 1954, Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss introduced the intensity

Thallium (5,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

infrared optical materials, because they are harder than other common infrared optics, and because they have transmission at significantly longer wavelengths

T. K. Alex (421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Indian satellites. Under his leadership the Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems (LEOS) was established in 1993 and from the inception he was its

Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from 10 to 30 percent of the observing time. The telescope uses active optics on its primary and secondary mirrors to attain median image quality 0.7

List of laser articles (2,609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Acousto-optic modulator Acousto-optical spectrometer Acousto-optics Active laser medium Active optics Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System Advanced Tactical

Zone plate (1,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Williams (1911), Physical Optics, New York: The MacMillan Company, pp. 37–39 "Zone Plates". X-Ray Data Booklet. Center for X-ray Optics and Advanced Light Source

Canon EF 400mm lens (495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lenses that make use of diffractive optics (the other is the EF 70–300mm f/4.5–5.6 DO IS USM). The use of diffractive optics allows the lens to be significantly