Optical materials are transparent materials from which optical lenses, prisms, windows, waveguides, and second-surface mirrors can be made. They are required...

Optical Materials is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation...

Organic materials are expected to have relatively strong nonlinear optical properties due to delocalized electrons at π − π {\displaystyle \pi -\pi } *...

in which the quantum state of the nonlinear material is not changed by the interaction with the optical field. As a consequence of this, the process...

physics, optical depth or optical thickness is the natural logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a material. Thus, the...

Optical Materials Express is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica. It covers advances in and applications of optical materials...

Advanced Optical Materials is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-VCH. It was established in 2013, after a section with the...

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...

structure of most liquids are mostly responsible for excellent optical transmission. Materials that do not transmit light are called opaque. Many such substances...

guided mode (known as return loss) (see Optical fiber connector). Without the use of an index-matching material, Fresnel reflections will occur at the...

expansion and other parameters. Lenses produced for optical applications use a wide variety of materials, from silica and conventional borosilicates to elements...

various materials Spectrometer or monochromator for generating or measuring a portion of the optical spectrum, for the purpose of chemical or material analysis...

suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials. Extruded glass fibres have applications as optical fibres in communications...

as an infrared optical material, transmitting from visible wavelengths to just over 12 micrometers. It can be used planar as an optical window or shaped...

in biomedical scans and optical computing. The ease with which the chemical composition can be changed in organic materials makes the photorefractive...

In optics, a dispersive prism is an optical prism that is used to disperse light, that is, to separate light into its spectral components (the colors...

the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light. These optically anisotropic...

Many materials have a well-characterized refractive index, but these indices often depend strongly upon the frequency of light, causing optical dispersion...

These materials are known as negative-index metamaterials. Potential applications of metamaterials are diverse and include sports equipment, optical filters...

the plane of polarization about the optical axis of linearly polarized light as it travels through certain materials. Circular birefringence and circular...

medium, the simplest instance being free space. Optics Optical isotropy means having the same optical properties in all directions. The individual reflectance...

K+[TiO]2+PO3−4. It is a white solid. KTP is an important nonlinear optical material that is commonly used for frequency-doubling diode-pumped solid-state...

Optically transparent materials focus on the response of a material to incoming light waves of a range of wavelengths. Frequency selective optical filters...

a pool of water). Optical materials with varying indexes of refraction are called gradient-index (GRIN) materials. Such materials are used to make gradient-index...

Optical manufacturing and testing is the process of manufacturing and testing optical components. It spans a wide range of manufacturing procedures and...

mechanism to energize it, and something to provide optical feedback. The gain medium is a material with properties that allow it to amplify light by way...

accomplished by manipulating the paths traversed by light through a novel optical material. Metamaterials direct and control the propagation and transmission...

Three grades of Spectralon reflectance material are available: optical grade, laser grade, and space grade. Optical-grade Spectralon has a high reflectance...

(Icelandic: silfurberg [ˈsɪlvʏrˌpɛrk], lit. 'silver-rock') and also called optical calcite, is a transparent variety of calcite, or crystallized calcium carbonate...

optical, electrical, and magnetic behavior of materials.: 5–7  Hyle, the Greek term, relevant for the philosophy of matter Matter Category:Materials "Definition...