Optics

Tags: Light

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The science and engineering of light!

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When dealing more specifically with individual photons, we usually call it photonics.

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Table of contents | 43, 992, 23
- 1. Beam splitter | 0, 0, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
  - 1.1. Half-silvered mirror | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Beam splitter"
- 2. Camera obscura | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
- 3. Collimator | 0, 52, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
  - 3.1. Collimated beam | 0, 52, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Collimator"
    - 3.1.1. Parallel light | 52 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Collimated beam"
- 4. Diffraction grating | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
- 5. Diaphragm (optics) | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
- 6. Lens | 16, 289, 2 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
  - 6.1. Biconvex spherical lens | 235, 273, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Lens"
    - 6.1.1. Focal length (f) | 38 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Biconvex spherical lens"
- 7. Optical cavity | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
- 8. Point light source | 13 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
- 9. Photonics | 30, 595, 9 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Optics"
  - 9.1. Photon polarization | 183, 221, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics"
    - 9.1.1. Polarizer | 38 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photon polarization"
  - 9.2. Poincaré sphere | 90 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics"
  - 9.3. Photonics equipment | 27, 254, 5 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics"
    - 9.3.1. Interferometer | 0, 143, 1 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics equipment"
      - 9.3.1.1. Fabry-Pérot interferometer | 143 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Interferometer"
    - 9.3.2. Optical fibre | 41 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics equipment"
    - 9.3.3. Optical table | 43 | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics equipment"
    - 9.3.4. Optical ring resonator | 🔗 link | 🗖 nosplit | ↑ parent "Photonics equipment"

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Ancestors

Photon | 138, 3k, 58
Elementary particle | 15, 3k, 74
Subatomic particle | 0, 4k, 86
Standard Model | 94, 5k, 96
Particle physics | 137, 32k, 512
Physics | 276, 46k, 820
Natural science | 0, 61k, 1k
Science | 0, 66k, 2k
Ciro Santilli's Homepage | 262, 217k, 4k

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Incoming links

Hamiltonian mechanics | 82, 268, 4
Photonics | 30, 595, 9