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    Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
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  • Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics lists, within the history of electromagnetism, the associated theories, technology, and events. 28th...
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    as "classical optics". The term "modern optics" refers to areas of optical research that largely developed in the 20th century, such as wave optics and...
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    Photonics (category Optics)
    photonics developments are successful. Photonics is closely related to optics. Classical optics long preceded the discovery that light is quantized, when Albert...
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    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...
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  • together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electrodynamics, classical optics, and electric circuits. Maxwell's equations describe...
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    together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits. The equations provide...
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  • Fourier optics is the study of classical optics using Fourier transforms (FTs), in which the waveform being considered is regarded as made up of a combination...
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  • Geometric phase (category Classical mechanics)
    phenomenon was independently discovered by S. Pancharatnam (1956), in classical optics and by H. C. Longuet-Higgins (1958) in molecular physics; it was generalized...
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  • resolution or other imaging criteria that is beyond what is possible in classical optics. Examples of quantum imaging are quantum ghost imaging, quantum lithography...
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  • Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms...
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    The Book of Optics (Arabic: كتاب المناظر, romanized: Kitāb al-Manāẓir; Latin: De Aspectibus or Perspectiva; Italian: Deli Aspecti) is a seven-volume treatise...
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  • The Journal of Optics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of modern and classical optics, experimental and theoretical studies,...
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    Wigner quasiprobability distribution (category Quantum optics)
    applications in statistical mechanics, quantum chemistry, quantum optics, classical optics and signal analysis in diverse fields, such as electrical engineering...
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    & Francis (2008). ISBN 9780415972352. page 865. Mansuripur, Masud. Classical Optics and Its Applications. Cambridge University Press (2002) ISBN 9780521804998...
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    involves such fields as electrical engineering, electromagnetics, classical optics, solid state physics, microwave and antenna engineering, optoelectronics...
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    Reflection coefficient (category Geometrical optics)
    lower-case r. These related concepts are covered by Fresnel equations in classical optics. Acousticians use reflection coefficients to understand the effect...
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  • Hong–Ou–Mandel effect (category Quantum optics)
    photons and the second quantization it can not be fully explained by classical optics. The effect provides one of the underlying physical mechanisms for...
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    friendship with him and learned geometry from him. El-Bizri, Nader (2010). "Classical Optics and the Perspectiva Traditions Leading to the Renaissance". In Hendrix...
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  • atomic and subatomic physics Timeline of classical mechanics Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity...
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  • Geometrical optics, or ray optics, is a model of optics that describes light propagation in terms of rays. The ray in geometrical optics is an abstraction...
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    ISBN 1-920897-20-8 Meyer-Arendt, Jurgen (1995) [1972], Introduction to Modern and Classical Optics, Prentice-Hall, Inc., ISBN 0-13-124356-X Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    Electricity Thermal properties, see Thermodynamics Optical properties, see Optics and Photonics Magnetic properties, see Magnetism The properties of a material...
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  • where S ( q , q ˙ ) {\displaystyle S\left(q,{\dot {q}}\right)} is the classical action and the integral is over all possible paths that a particle may...
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  • molecular, and optical physics Nonlinear dynamics, Fluid dynamics, Classical optics, etc. Plasma and beam physics Condensed matter: Structure, etc. Condensed...
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  • together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, and electric circuits. The equations provide a mathematical...
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    small perturbations, and in the same sense that quantum optics is compatible with classical optics, other interpretations are subject of debates and active...
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  • flatten topography before high-resolution lithographic steps. From classical optics, k1=0.61 by the Rayleigh criterion. The image of two points separated...
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    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...
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    Polarization (waves) (category Physical optics)
    Expanded. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-203-91158-7. Masud Mansuripur (2009). Classical Optics and Its Applications. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88169-2...
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