• The Optical Society was a scientific society founded in London in 1899, which published Transactions of the Optical Society. The Optical Society was founded...
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  • 'Optica (founded as the Optical Society of America; later the Optical Society) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest...
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    society became the Physical Society, and in 1932 absorbed the Optical Society (of London). The Optical Society published Transactions of the Optical Society...
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    Optics (redirect from Optical)
    as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties. Most optical phenomena can be accounted for by using the classical electromagnetic description...
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    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...
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    clocks improve based on optical clocks or the Rydberg constant around 2030. Technological developments such as lasers and optical frequency combs in the...
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  • timeline of optical character recognition. Optical character recognition Handwriting recognition Schantz, H. F. (1982) The history of OCR: optical character...
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  • Archibald Barr (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    President of the Optical Society, London f., J. W. (1932). "Archibald Barr. 1855-1931". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 31–36. doi:10...
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  • Ian Walmsley (category Optical physicists)
    Physics, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. Walmsley was educated at Imperial College London, and The Institute of Optics...
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    Charles K. Kao (category Optical engineers)
    considered optical physics but also the material properties. The results were first presented by Kao to the IEE in January 1966 in London, and further...
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    The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...
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    An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical...
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    In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept...
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    technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, spectroscopy (and its applications...
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    optics, the superposition principle no longer holds. The first nonlinear optical effect to be predicted was two-photon absorption, by Maria Goeppert Mayer...
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    place to another by sending pulses of infrared or visible light through an optical fiber. The light is a form of carrier wave that is modulated to carry information...
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  • Worshipful Society of Apothecaries List of museums in London "London Museums of Health and Medicine". UK: Culture24. Retrieved 12 January 2014. "London Museums...
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  • ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod. Dermo-optical perception - The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through one's...
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  • Leonard Mandel (category Optical physicists)
    Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America from 1985-1988, and was Associate Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society 1970-1976 and 1982-1983...
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    List of refractive indices (category Optical materials)
    these indices often depend strongly upon the frequency of light, causing optical dispersion. Standard refractive index measurements are taken at the "yellow...
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  • Information revolution Internet Mass media Mobile phone Smartphone Optical telecommunication Optical telegraphy Pager Photophone Prepaid mobile phone Radio Radiotelephone...
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    Zoom lens (redirect from Optical zoom)
    opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (prime lens). A true zoom lens or optical zoom lens is a type of parfocal lens, one that maintains focus when its...
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  • Claude Monet’s paintings in London and Paris over the 19th century accurately render physical changes in their local optical environment. In particular...
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  • Op art (redirect from Optical art)
    Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in...
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    Ernst Abbe (category Optical engineers)
    businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He...
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    Slit lamp examination Dilated fundus examination Gonioscopy Refraction Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical technological platform used to...
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    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...
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    In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability...
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    Science Cambridge Ghost Society International Institute for Psychical Research London Dialectical Society Metropolitan Psychical Society National Laboratory...
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  • Iceland spar (redirect from Optical calcite)
    (Icelandic: silfurberg [ˈsɪlvʏrˌpɛrk], lit. 'silver-rock') and also called optical calcite, is a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate...
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