Optica, founded as the Optical Society of America (later the Optical Society), is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest...

The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) is professional organization of physicists conducting research in Optics. The organization was founded in 1952 as a...

SPIE (formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) is an international...

A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk') is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting...

The European Optical Society (EOS), founded in 1991, is a European organisation for the development of the science of optics. Membership is open to national...

The Journal of the Optical Society of America is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of optics, published by Optica. It was established in 1917 and in...

The Optical Society was a scientific society founded in London in 1899, which published Transactions of the Optical Society. The Optical Society was founded...

Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about...

fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single...

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word...

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...

An optical transistor, also known as an optical switch or a light valve, is a device that switches or amplifies optical signals. Light occurring on an...

Meter". JOSA. 38 (7): 661. (Proceedings of the Winter Meeting of the Optical Society of America) Hunter, Richard Sewall (December 1948). "Accuracy, Precision...

advisor was Robert E. Hopkins. Frieden is now an emeritus professor of optical sciences at the University of Arizona. Frieden is best known for his extensive...

as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties. Most optical phenomena can be accounted for by using the classical electromagnetic description...

Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks...

experimental study of the rate of a moving atomic clock". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 28 (7): 215. Bibcode:1938JOSA...28..215I. doi:10.1364/JOSA...

Apparatus for Large Areas of Field". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 39 (11). The Optical Society: 907. Bibcode:1949JOSA...39..907B. doi:10.1364/josa...

the Optical Society. In 1958, OSA named him an Honorary Member. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1953. Since 1970, the Optical Society of America...

images: The effects of axial chromatic aberration" (PDF). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 11 (12): 3113. Bibcode:1994JOSAA..11.3113M. doi:10.1364/JOSAA...

Chinese Optical Society (simplified Chinese: 中国光学学会; traditional Chinese: 中國光學學會; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guāngxué Xuéhuì; abbreviated COS) is a professional...

represented by a Jones vector, and linear optical elements are represented by Jones matrices. When light crosses an optical element the resulting polarization...

September 26–29, 1988, Cape Cod, MA, Falcone, R. W. And Kirz, J. Eds, (Optical Society of America). 2: 233–235. Solem, J. C.; Luk, T. S.; Boyer, K.; Rhodes...

the Optical Society's Adolph Lomb Medal in 1952. In 1954, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society. He...

surface elements. An optical phased array (OPA) is the optical analog of a radio-wave phased array. By dynamically controlling the optical properties of a...

Slalom World Cup William E. Forsythe (1881–1969), president of the Optical Society of America William Forsyth (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

3D optical data storage is any form of optical data storage in which information can be recorded or read with three-dimensional resolution (as opposed...

of optical physics, dies at 95". Rochester University. Retrieved June 4, 2018. "Past Presidents of the Optical Society of America". Optical Society of...

An optical coating is one or more thin layers of material deposited on an optical component such as a lens, prism or mirror, which alters the way in which...

American baseball player Arthur C. Hardy (1895–1977), president of the Optical Society of America, 1935–1936 Arthur "Smokestack" Hardy (1901–1995), American...