• Applied Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica three times a month. It was established in 1962 with John N. Howard as founding...
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    Tammer, Robert (1998-03-20). "Laboratory experiments in atmospheric optics". Applied Optics. 37 (9). The Optical Society: 1557–1568. Bibcode:1998ApOpt..37...
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    number of subject areas in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied optics. These areas are given below, organized according to a taxonomy proposed...
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    Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
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  • The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), also referred to as the Fraunhofer IOF, is an institute of the Fraunhofer...
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  • American mathematical physicist. Frieden obtained a Ph.D. in optics from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. His doctoral thesis advisor...
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    Gradient-index (GRIN) optics is the branch of optics covering optical effects produced by a gradient of the refractive index of a material. Such gradual...
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    "Iridescent Clouds". Atmospheric Optics. Sassen, Kenneth (1 January 2003). "Cirrus cloud iridescence: a rare case study". Applied Optics. 42 (3): 486–491. Bibcode:2003ApOpt...
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    Optical fiber (redirect from Fiber optics)
    connectors. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. The term was coined...
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  • of Optics. In 1998 it merged with the European Optical Society's Pure and Applied Optics and was renamed Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics. As...
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    "Observation, analysis, and reconstruction of a twinned rainbow". Applied Optics. 54 (4): B117 – B127. Bibcode:2015ApOpt..54B.117H. doi:10.1364/AO.54...
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    (2004). "Coherent Differential Absorption Lidar Measurements of CO2". Applied Optics. 43 (26): 5092–5099. Bibcode:2004ApOpt..43.5092K. doi:10.1364/AO.43...
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    ISBN 978-3-319-04768-3. Fraser, Alistair B. (1 April 1975). "Theological Optics". Applied Optics. 14 (4): A92-3. doi:10.1364/AO.14.000A92. PMID 20134969. Wilford...
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    Nonlinear optics Quantum optics Plasma physics Quantum technology Quantum computing Quantum cryptography Renewable energy Space physics Spectroscopy Applied science...
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    In optics, a ray is an idealized geometrical model of light or other electromagnetic radiation, obtained by choosing a curve that is perpendicular to the...
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    Pellicori, S. F. (1980). "Spectral properties of the Shroud of Turin". Applied Optics. 19 (12): 1913–1920. Bibcode:1980ApOpt..19.1913P. doi:10.1364/AO.19...
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  • Nanophotonics (redirect from Nano-optics)
    Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light...
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    "Plasmonic " pump – probe " method to study semi-transparent nanofluids". Applied Optics. 52 (24): 6041–6050. Bibcode:2013ApOpt..52.6041H. doi:10.1364/AO.52...
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    Atmospheric optics is "the study of the optical characteristics of the atmosphere or products of atmospheric processes .... [including] temporal and spatial...
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  • X-ray optics is the branch of optics dealing with X-rays, rather than visible light. It deals with focusing and other ways of manipulating the X-ray beams...
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  • local space-invariant interconnections and its optical architecture". Applied Optics. 29 (32): 4790–7. Bibcode:1990ApOpt..29.4790Z. doi:10.1364/AO.29.004790...
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  • Jones calculus (category Optics)
    In optics, polarized light can be described using the Jones calculus, invented by R. C. Jones in 1941. Polarized light is represented by a Jones vector...
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    generalized N-slit interferometric equation that was then applied to describe classical optics phenomena such as interference, diffraction, refraction,...
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    wife died of stomach cancer in 2007. Wong holds degrees in physics, applied optics, and chemical engineering from Imperial College London. His English...
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  • Sylvanshine (category Optics stubs)
    coherent backscattering of light in turbid media", Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 4 (3): 309–314, Bibcode:2002JOptA...4..309L, doi:10.1088/1464-4258/4/3/316...
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    1080/14786449108620080. Young, M. (1 December 1971). "Pinhole Optics". Applied Optics. 10 (12): 2763–2767. Bibcode:1971ApOpt..10.2763Y. doi:10.1364/ao...
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    star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric...
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  • optical physics, applied optics, and optical engineering, since the devices of optical engineering and the applications of applied optics are necessary for...
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  • 1904–1905. Conrady himself records in the preface to his magnum opus, Applied Optics and Optical Design, that his optical work during these years led to...
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  • In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of a rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system...
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