summarizes equations used in optics, including geometric optics, physical optics, radiometry, diffraction, and interferometry. There are different forms of the...

, then equation (2) becomes (1). Eikonal equations naturally arise in the WKB method and the study of Maxwell's equations. Eikonal equations provide...

differential equations, manifolds, Lie groups, and ergodic theory. This article gives a summary of the most important of these. This article lists equations from...

Defining equation (physical chemistry) Fresnel equations List of equations in classical mechanics List of equations in fluid mechanics List of equations in...

Fresnel Fresnel equations Fresnel lens Fresnel number Fresnel reflection Fresnel zone gain-switching Gaussian beam gegenschein geometrical optics Glan–Foucault...

Hypergeometric differential equation Jimbo–Miwa–Ueno isomonodromy equations Painlevé equations Picard–Fuchs equation to describe the periods of elliptic curves Schlesinger's...

of Quality". Ghosh, Gorachand (1997). "Sellmeier Coefficients and Dispersion of Thermo-Optic coefficients for some optical glasses". Applied Optics....

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...

Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density...

instead of nonrelativistic energy equations. The Klein–Gordon equation and the Dirac equation are two such equations. The Klein–Gordon equation, − 1 c...

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

development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term τα ὀπτικά meaning 'appearance, look'. Optics was significantly...

See also Nonlinear partial differential equation, List of partial differential equation topics and List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations....

generally, the NLSE appears as one of universal equations that describe the evolution of slowly varying packets of quasi-monochromatic waves in weakly...

Examples of nonlinear differential equations are the Navier–Stokes equations in fluid dynamics and the Lotka–Volterra equations in biology. One of the greatest...

Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959...

This is a list of scientific equations named after people (eponymous equations). Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z See also References...

Reference For Fiber Optics - Optical Fiber". www.thefoa.org. Retrieved April 10, 2016. Bass, Michael (2010). Handbook of optics. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-163314-7...

(2017). "Finite Imagery". Optics (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-09693-3. Hecht, Eugene (2017). "Thin-Lens Equations". Optics (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-09693-3...

{\displaystyle F^{\tau \sigma }} is electromagnetic field-strength tensor. Using equations of motion, m d u τ d s = e F τ σ u σ , {\displaystyle m{\frac {du^{\tau...

geometrical optics, by applying variational principles to rays of light in a medium, and solving the EL equations gives the equations of the paths the...

equation and Lindblad equation are examples of approximate quantum master equations assumed to be Markovian. More accurate quantum master equations for...

Crystal optics is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in anisotropic media, that is, media (such as crystals) in which light behaves...

transformation optics is similar to the equations that describe how gravity warps space and time, in general relativity. However, instead of space and time...

Acousto-optics is a branch of physics that studies the interactions between sound waves and light waves, especially the diffraction of laser light by ultrasound...

Mechanics, Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Electrodynamics, Optics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Partial Differential Equations in Physics. Focusing...

surface. This is a consequence of the fact that the wave equation in optics is second order in the time. The wave equation of quantum mechanics is first order...

In optics, a Gaussian beam is an idealized beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian function;...

version (see Maxwell–Faraday equation below) is the form recognized today in the group of equations known as Maxwell's equations. Lenz's law, formulated by...

transformation optics developed from the capability to choose the parameters for a given material. Hence, since Maxwell's equations retain the same form...