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A

Abbe number — Abbe prism — Abbe sine condition — Aberration in optical systems — Absorption — Absorption spectrum — Active laser medium — Afterglow — Airglow — Airy disk — Albedo — Alexander's band — Alpenglow — Angle of incidence — Angle of reflection — Anti-reflective coating — Arago spot — Asterism (astronomy) — Asterism (gemmology) — Aspheric lens — Atmospheric diffraction — Atom optics — Atomic, molecular, and optical physics — Aura (optics) — Auroral light — Avalanche photodiode — Aventurescence — Axicon —

B

Barrel distortion — Beam splitter — Beer-Lambert law — Binoculars — Birefringence — Black body radiation — Brewster's angle — Brewster window — Brightness temperature — Brillouin scattering

C

Camera — Camera lens — Camera lucida — Camera obscura — Candela — Cardinal point (optics) — Cassegrain reflector — Cathodoluminescence — Caustic (optics) — Caustics — Chatoyancy — Chemical laser — Chromatic aberration — Chromaticity — Chromaticity diagram — Chrominance — Circle of confusion — Circular dichroism — Coherence length — Coherence (physics) — Coherence time - Collimated light — Color — Colorimetry — Color science — Confocal — Confocal laser scanning microscopy — Concave lens — Concave mirror — Convex lens — Convex mirror — Cooke triplet — Corner reflector — Crystal optics —

D

Dark state — Densitometry — Depolarizer (optics) — Diaphragm (optics) — Dichroism — Dichroic filter — Dichroic prism — Diffraction — Diffraction grating — Diffractive optics — Dispersion (optics) — Double-Gauss lens — Double refraction — Double-slit experiment —

E

EDFA — Effect of sun angle on climate — Electro-gyration— Electro-optic effect — Electroluminescence — Electromagnetic radiation — Electromagnetic spectrum — Electromagnetic wave — Elve — Emission spectrum — Entrance pupil — Exit pupil — Eyeglass prescription — Etalon — Evanescent wave — Excimer laser — Eye — Eyepiece —

F

f-number — fabrication and testing (optical components) — Faraday effect — far point — fata Morgana — Fermat's principle — fiber amplifier — fiber optics — filter (optics) — Fizeau-Foucault apparatus — Flat mirror — fluorescence — focal length — focal point (optics) — focus — Folded optics — Fourier optics — Fraunhofer diffraction — Fraunhofer line — free-space optical communication — Augustin-Jean Fresnel — Fresnel equations — Fresnel lens — Fresnel number — Fresnel reflection — Fresnel zone —

G

gain-switching — Gaussian beam — gegenschein — geometrical optics — Glan-Foucault prism — Glan-laser prism — Glan-Taylor prism — Glan-Thompson prism — glory (optical phenomenon) — gloss (material appearance) — gradient index lens — gradient index optics — guided-wave optics —

H

Haidinger's brush — halo (optical phenomenon) — Helium-neon laser — history of lensmaking — holography — human visual system — Huygens' principle —

I

Illumination engineering — Image processing — Incandescence — Information theory — Integrated optics — Interference — Interferometry — Inverse-square law — Iridescence — International Commission on Illumination—

J

Jones calculus —

K

Kerr cell — Kerr effect — Kerr-lens modelocking — knife-edge effect —

L

Laser — Laser construction — Laser applications — Laser pumping — Laser science — Lasing threshold — Least distance of distinct vision — Lens (optics) — Light — Light bulb — Light-emitting diode — Light meter — Liquid-crystal display — Liquid scintillation counting — List of fiber optic terms — List of indices of refraction — List of lens designs — List of wave topics — Luminance — Luminiferous aether — Luminosity — Luminous intensity — Lumen — Lustre (mineralogy) — Lux —

M

magnifying glass — material science - optical properties — metamerism — Michelson-Morley experiment — micro-optics — microphotonics — microscope — Mie scattering — mirage — mirror — modelocking — modern optics — monochromator — monocular — multilayer optics —

N

Natural Color System — Newton's rings — Nicol prism — Nomarski prism — non-imaging optics — nonlinear optics — normal lens — numerical aperture —

O

off-axis optical system — optical axis — optical axis gratings — optical bench — optical coating — optical communication — optical computer — optical data storage (science of) — optical depth — optical disc — optical distance — optical engineering — optical fiber — optical fiber connector — optical illusion — optical instrument — optical isotropy — optical lens design — optical modeling and simulation — optical path — optical path length — optical pattern recognition — optical phenomenon — optical processor — optical resonator — optical spectrum — optical tweezers — optical waveguide — optical window — optics — optoelectronics

P

paraxial approximation — pattern recognition — pentaprism — penumbra — phase (waves) — phosphorescence — phot — photodiode — photoelectric effect — photographic lens — photography (science of) — photometry — photomultiplier — photon — photonic crystal — photonics — photon polarization — photorefractive effect — photoresistor — physical optics — pincushion distortion — pinhole camera — piston (optics) — pleochroism — Pockels effect — polarimeter — polarization — Polaroid — population inversion — Porro prism — prime lens — principal focus — principle of least time — prism (optics) — prism compressor — progressive lenses —

Q

Q-switching — quantum optics — quantum well laser —

R

Radial polarisation — Radiometry — radius of curvature — Rainbow — Raman amplification — Raman amplifier — Ray (optics) — Rayleigh criterion — Rayleigh scattering — Ray tracing — Ray transfer matrix analysis — Reflecting telescope — Reflection (optics) — Refracting telescope — Refraction — Reflection coefficient — Refractive index — Refractometer — Retroreflector — RGB color model — Rochon Prism — Rotating wave approximation

S

scattering — scintillator — scintillation — Sellmeier equation — Sénarmont prism — shadow — slit experiment — Willebrord Snell — Snell's law — spatial filter — speckle pattern — speckle interferometry — spectroscopy — speed of light — spontaneous emission — sprite (optical phenomenon) — statistical optics — stereoscopy — stimulated emission — Stokes parameters — sun dog — sunlight — sylvanshine — synchrotron radiation —

T

telescope — thermal physics - radiative heat transfer — thin-film optics — tilt (optics) — total internal reflection — transparency (optics) — transverse mode — triangular prismtriangular prism!—> — Tyndall effect

U

ultraviolet catastrophe — umbra — Umov effect —

W

waveguide — wavelength — wavelength division multiplexing — wave plate — wide-angle lens — Wollaston prism —

Z

Zeeman effect — Zeiss Tessar — zodiacal light — zone plate — zoom lens —