• United Kingdom and Europe. Optical Express is a trading name of DCM (Optical Holdings) Limited which operates as the Optical Express Group. In 2013 the company...
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  • Optical Materials Express is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica. It covers advances in and applications of optical materials...
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    An optical ring resonator is a set of waveguides in which at least one is a closed loop coupled to some sort of light input and output. (These can be...
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    Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient force trap) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move...
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    An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier...
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    wellbeing.com In late 2004, Boots sold its laser eye surgery business to Optical Express. In October 2005, a merger with Alliance UniChem was announced by the...
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  • partnership with Reliance. On 1 May 2013, Vision Express announced that it had acquired twelve optical clinics from Crown Eyeglass Ltd. The stores, situated...
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    announced his partnership with Marcolin Group to produce and distribute optical frames and sunglasses. In 2005, he launched the Tom Ford Estée Lauder Collection...
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    original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017. "Optical Express – LIVE LIFE IN 20/20". Optical Express. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Cameron...
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  • Optical Express Ltd v Williams [2007] IRLR 936 is a UK labour law case, concerning redundancy. Ms Williams claimed redundancy six weeks into a trial period...
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    the last 50 years. Ophthalmologist Steve Schallhorn, chairman of the Optical Express International Medical Advisory Board, noted that researchers had pointed...
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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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  • 2024, one month after stopping trading, the chain was acquired by Optical Express. The company was founded in 1983 by Australian entrepreneur, Mel Braham...
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  • 0 mm and therefore an optical format of 8.0*3/2 = 12 mm, which is expressed as 1⁄2 inch in imperial units. The reason it is expressed in inches is historical...
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    A subwavelength-diameter optical fibre (SDF or SDOF) is an optical fibre whose diameter is less than the wavelength of the light being propagated through...
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  • Laser eye surgery in the UK is dominated by three main companies Optical Express, Ultralase and Optimax which, in total, account for approximately 56%...
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    Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution imaging technique with most of its applications in medicine and biology. OCT uses coherent near-infrared...
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    the last 50 years. Ophthalmologist Steve Schallhorn, chairman of the Optical Express International Medical Advisory Board, noted that research has pointed...
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  • Optical transfection is a biomedical technique that entails introducing nucleic acids (i.e. genetic material such as DNA) into cells using light. All...
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    An optical disc is a flat, usually disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with...
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    OCuLink (standing for "optical-copper link", as Cu is the chemical symbol for copper) is an extension for the "cable version of PCI Express". Version 1.0 of...
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    TOSLINK (redirect from Digital optical)
    Link) is a standardized optical fiber connector system. Generically known as optical audio, the most common use of the TOSLINK optical fiber connector is in...
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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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  • needed] All of Boots Opticians' laser eye surgeries were bought by Optical Express in late 2004.[citation needed] On 29 January 2009, it was announced...
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    An optical cavity, resonating cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors or other optical elements that confines light waves similarly to...
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    An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion...
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  • huge cash loan that enabled his friend David Moulsdale, founder of Optical Express eye surgery clinics, to save his company from closure after the Royal...
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    Optical communication, also known as optical telecommunication, is communication at a distance using light to carry information. It can be performed visually...
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    "Laser Eye Surgery". The Irish Times. "Laser Eye Surgery Suitability". Optical Express. Archived from the original on 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2014-11-25. "Laser...
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    An optical lattice is formed by the interference of counter-propagating laser beams, creating a spatially periodic intensity pattern. The resulting periodic...
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