The Optical Society was a scientific society founded in London in 1899, which published Transactions of the Optical Society. The Optical Society was founded...

Optica (founded as The Optical Society of America (OSA), later The Optical Society) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest...

society became the Physical Society, and in 1932 absorbed the Optical Society (of London). The Optical Society published Transactions of the Optical Society...

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...

as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties. Most optical phenomena can be accounted for by using the classical electromagnetic description...

timeline of optical character recognition. Optical character recognition Handwriting recognition Schantz, H. F. (1982) The history of OCR: optical character...

clocks improve based on optical clocks or the Rydberg constant around 2030. Technological developments such as lasers and optical frequency combs in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

technique in the fields of astronomy, fiber optics, engineering metrology, optical metrology, oceanography, seismology, spectroscopy (and its applications...

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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optics, the superposition principle no longer holds. The first nonlinear optical effect to be predicted was two-photon absorption, by Maria Goeppert Mayer...

these indices often depend strongly upon the frequency of light, causing optical dispersion. Standard refractive index measurements are taken at the "yellow...

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries List of museums in London "London Museums of Health and Medicine". UK: Culture24. Retrieved 12 January 2014. "London Museums...

Physics, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. Walmsley was educated at Imperial College London, and The Institute of Optics...

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...

Claude Monet’s paintings in London and Paris over the 19th century accurately render physical changes in their local optical environment. In particular...

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...

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

Slit lamp examination Dilated fundus examination Gonioscopy Refraction Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical technological platform used to...

refracting systems” was published in 1924 in the Transactions of the Optical Society, London. Kingslake made significant contributions to memorializing the...

All communications trunks are now digital. Most are carried via national optical fibre networks. There are several companies with national fibre networks...

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to enhance image quality. Features like low-light and HDR photography, optical image stabilization, and depth-sensing became common in smartphone cameras...

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