1. Optics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia optics ( appearance or look in Ancient Greek) is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optics

Optics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search "Optical" redirects here. For the musical artist, see Optical (artist) For the book by Sir Isaac Newton, see Opticks Table of Opticks, 1728 Cyclopaedia Optics appearance or look in Ancient Greek ) is a branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter . Optics explains optical phenomena The field of optics usually describes the behavior of visible infrared , and ultraviolet light; however because light is an electromagnetic wave , analogous phenomena occur in X-rays microwaves radio waves, and other forms of electromagnetic radiation . Optics can thus be regarded as a sub-field of electromagnetism . Some optical phenomena depend on the quantum nature of light relating some areas of optics to quantum mechanics . In practice, the vast majority of optical phenomena can be accounted for using the electromagnetic description of light, as described by Maxwell's Equations The field of optics has its own identity, societies, and conferences. The pure science aspects of the field are often called optical science or optical physics . Applied optical sciences are often called optical engineering . Applications of optical engineering related specifically to illumination systems are called illumination engineering. Each of these disciplines tends to be quite different in its applications, technical skills, focus, and professional affiliations. More recent innovations in optical engineering are often categorized as

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3. Optics, An Online Physics Textbook books optics. cover of book. Buy a printed copy. View the HTML version (good for casual browsing, but not printerfriendly). http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book5.html

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7. Photographic Optics A collection of illustrated pages on photographic optics. Theoretical background and practical considerations. http://www.vanwalree.com/optics.html

HOME ABOUT PHOTOS OPTICS ... SITEMAP Photographic optics Here is a collection of illustrated articles on the chief causes of image degradation in photography. Currently available pages can be accessed via hyperlinks. The reader should keep in mind that the articles are about principles of photographic optics and not about tests of specific lenses. Also, most of the phenomena have been captured on film. Since a film acts as no more than a light-sensitive medium, the examples equally apply to a digital recorder array. In the few cases where the nature of the recording medium is important, this will be emphasized. Seidel aberrations Spherical aberration occurs when the lens margins focus the light closer to -or further from- the sensor than the lens center. Coma is associated with off-axis image points being smeared out in the characteristic comet shape. Astigmatism implies that a lens can be sharper in one direction than another. The archetypal example is that of a wheel where the spokes and the rim are not rendered sharp simultaneously. Field curvature leads to a curved image surface. Although the image can be sharp on this surface, it is incompatible with a flat sensor.

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11. The Fundamentals Of Optics Physical optics is concerned with the creation, nature, and properties of light. Psychological optics pertains to the role of light in vision. http://www.play-hookey.com/optics/

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12. Optics InfoBase Jan 14 2008 The optics Express Coherent Optical Communication Focus Issue is now available. Dec 10 2007 The optics Express Physics and Applications of http://www.opticsinfobase.org/

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Optics Express Published by The Optical Society of America Optics Express The International Electronic Journal of Optics OSA Optics InfoBase Advanced Search ... Editors and Staff CMOS Rx ASIC with four 20 Gs/s A/Ds and 12 trillion (12x1012) operations per second. Authors show continuous real-time measurements from a coherent 40 Gb/s transmission system that uses Dual-Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) modulation. [See Sun et al. Fig. 2 for details.] SPARC partnership Home E-first Focus Issues ... More... Announcements: Optics Express, Optics Letters Top-Rated Journals in 2006. Read More Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics . Focus Issue: Physics and applications of microresonators . Focus Issue: Coherent Optical Communication Quick Help FOCUS SERIAL: FRONTIERS OF NONLINEAR OPTICS Nonlinear optics for functional devices and applications Nonlinear-optical phase modification in dispersion-engineered Si photonic wires J. I. Dadap, N. C. Panoiu, Xiaogang Chen, I-Wei Hsieh, Xiaoping Liu, Cheng-Yun Chou, E. Dulkeith, S. J. McNab, Fengnian Xia, W. M. J. Green, L. Sekaric, Y. A. Vlasov, and R. M. Osgood, Jr. pp. 1280-1299 [full text:

17. Modern History Sourcebook: Isaac Newton: Optics Isaac Newton, optics, or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, IrMlections and Colours of Light, 4th ed. (London, 1730). Capitalization and spelling http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newton-optics.html

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Isaac Newton: Optics Excerpts. [Atomic Theory] It seems to me farther, that those particles have not only a force of inertia accompanied with such passive laws of motion as naturally result from that force, but also that they are moved by certain active principles, such as is that of gravity, and that which causes fermentation, and the cohesion of bodies. These principles I consider, not as occult qualities, supposed to result from the specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature, by which the things themselves are formed; their truth appearing to us by phenomena, though their causes be not yet discovered. For these are manifest qualities, and their causes only are occult. And the Aristotelians in infinitum and matter is not necessarily in all places, it may be also allowed that God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures, and in several proportions to space, and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the universe. At least, I see nothing of contradiction in all this. [Induction] Isaac Newton

18. Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics And You Science, optics and You is an educational resource for the science of optics and the physics of light and color intended for teachers, students, http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/

Visit the Molecular Expressions Website Galleria Photo Gallery ... Home Table of Contents Science, Optics and You is a science curriculum package being developed for teachers, students, and parents. These activities are designed to promote the asking and answering of questions related to light, color, and optics. The program begins with basic information about lenses, shadows, prisms, and color, leading up to the use of sophisticated instruments scientists use to help them understand the world. The goal of Science, Optics and You is for students to acquire the skills with which they can do microscopic analysis of a variety of samples in multiple ways. Use the links below to navigate to featured subsections of this Website. Timeline in Optics - A summary of important events in optics, microscopy, astronomy, and the physics of light and color. Spanning from prehistory to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the timeline places each discovery, invention, theory, and development into a larger context of the world and its history. Find out when Halley's comet was first observed, how Christopher Columbus caused the moon to go dark, and who really invented the light bulb. Pioneers in Optics - Since the early days in Alexandria when Euclid described the laws of reflection in Optica , the science of optics has fascinated and challenged society's most brilliant minds. Some have made it possible to reach for the stars, while others have helped unveil a microscopic realm on Earth. Tribute is paid to these heroes through brief biographies that acknowledge their tremendous accomplishments and how they have affected civilization.

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20. Optics Letters The journal where readers look for the latest in optics discoveries. OSA opticsInfoBase Stokes vector analysis of adaptive optics images of the retina http://ol.osa.org/

Published by The Optical Society of America Optics Letters The journal where readers look for the latest in optics discoveries OSA Optics InfoBase Advanced Search ... Quick Help Coherence and statistical optics First- and second-order statistics of partially coherent, high-numerical-aperture optical fields Christer Rydberg pp. 104-106 [full text: PDF (216 KB)] On the vectorial fields with position-independent stochastic behavior Rosario Mart­nez-Herrero and Pedro M. Mej­as pp. 195-197 [full text: PDF (77 KB)] Detectors Terahertz frontside-illuminated quantum-well photodetector Mikhail Patrashin and Iwao Hosako pp. 168-170 [full text: PDF (265 KB)] Diffraction and gratings Study of the numerical artifacts in differential analysis of highly conducting gratings Amin Khavasi, Khashayar Mehrany, and Amir H. Jazayeri pp. 159-161 [full text: PDF (214 KB)] Fiber optics and optical communications Stretcher-free high energy nonlinear amplification of femtosecond pulses in rod-type fibers Y. Zaouter, D. N. Papadopoulos, M. Hanna, J. Boullet, L. Huang, C. Aguergaray, F. Druon, E. Mottay, P. Georges, and E. Cormier pp. 107-109 [full text:

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