Optical coating (13649 bytes)
1: [[Image:coating-1.jpg|right|Optically coated mirrors and lenses]]
3: ...lowing the production of [[dichroic]] [[thin-film optical filters]].
5: ==Types of coating==
6: ...the mirror; aluminium is cheapest and most common coating, and yields a reflectivity of around 88%-92% over...
8: By controlling the thickness and density of metal coatings, it is possible to decrease the reflectivity and...

Industrial coating (307 bytes)
1: ...tance. The most common polymer used in industrial coatings is epoxy.

Magnetic media coating (2946 bytes)
1: The '''Magnetic Media Layer''' is a very thin coating of magnetic material on a hard disk drive which i...

Optical waveguide (705 bytes)
1: ... as a transmission medium in local or long haul [[optical communications|communication systems]].
3: ...le-mode optical fiber|single-mode]], [[Multi-mode optical fiber|multi-mode]]), [[refractive index]] distrib...

Optical phenomenon (5194 bytes)
3: ...n of [[light]] and [[matter]]. See also [[list of optical topics]] and [[optics]]
5: Common optical phenomena are often due to the interaction of lig...
7: ... are simply interesting aspects of [[optics]], or optical effects. The colors generated by a prism are ofte...
9: ==A list of optical phenomena==
11: Entopic phenomena include optical phenomena arising from the structures of the [[ey...

Optical astronomy (710 bytes)
1: '''Optical astronomy''' encompasses a wide variety of observ...
5: Optical astronomy also includes looking up at night.

Optical illusion (6043 bytes)
1: An '''optical illusion''' is any [[illusion]] that deceives the...
3: ...ptical illusions can naturally happen by specific optical tricks that show particular assumptions in the hu...
5: ...l.greysquares.arp.600pix.jpg|250px|thumb|right|An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of g...
7: A [[mirage]] is a natural illusion that is an [[optical phenomenon]].
9: ...orizon) is another natural illusion; it is not an optical phenomenon, but rather a cognitive or perceptual ...

Optical communication (2280 bytes)
1: '''Optical communication''' is any form of [[telecommunicati...
3: There are many forms of non-technological optical communication, including [[body language]] and [[...
5: ...]s; fires were the earliest form of technological optical communication.
13: == Modern optical communications ==
15: ...ources. Often the light is in the [[infrared]] [[optical spectrum|spectrum]], rather than being [[visible ...

Optical window (1219 bytes)
1: ...st a little of what is out there. It is called "optical" because the wavelengths we can [[Visual percepti...
5: In [[medical physics]], the optical window is the portion of the visible and infrared...

Optical engineering (523 bytes)
1: ...uch as optical sensors and metrological apparati. Optical engineering metrology utilises the latter to meas...

Optical computer (6087 bytes)
1: ... more traditional [[electron]]-based computation. Optical computing is a major branch of the study of [[Pho...
2: ... [[laser|lasers]] and the light guided down the [[optical fiber]]. The conversion process between electroni...
4: ...er, [[transistor]]s that are composed entirely of optical components, if they exist, are currently only in ...
8: ...ersion is necessary now because we don't have all-optical versions of all the myriad switching devices requ...
10: ...4 Mpixels and above) can be fabricated like large optical arrays, each passing, switching or filtering each...

Optical tweezers (1583 bytes)
1: '''Optical tweezers''' are the [[Laser applications|applicat...
7: ...controllable beams using a 2D-array of switchable optical phase delay elements which form a controllable / ...
10: ...ticalTweezers/ Non-intrusive Micromanipulation by Optical Tweezers (Umeå University, Sweden)]
11: ...muenchen.de/tI/galIT1n01.html Slide show of using optical tweezers (Medical University Munich)]
12: ...rd.edu/labs/bacteria/index_movies.html Videos] of optical tweezers being used on bacteria.

Optical telescope (4553 bytes)
1: An '''optical telescope''' is a [[telescope]] which is used to ...
3: ...s of [[photon]]s". There are two primary types of optical telescope: [[reflecting telescope|reflectors]] (w...
5: ...virtual image. Many types of telescopes fold the optical path with '''secondary''' or '''tertiary''' mirro...
8: ...lescopes, linked together by carefully-controlled optical paths. The sensitivity of a telescope is determin...
14: The light-gathering power of an optical telescope is directly related to the [[diameter]]...

Optical effect (508 bytes)
1: ...lm]] effects that are created entirely through an optical process using film, light, shadow, [[lens (optics...

Optical interferometry (3452 bytes)
3: '''Optical interferometry''' is a technique of [[interferome...
4: ...bining light from multiple sources in an [[optics|optical]]
7: The technique of optical interferometry can make use of [[white light]],
12: the optical path lengths travelled by the interfering beams o...
15: Of the uses of optical interferometry mention should be made of the

Optical telegraph (1845 bytes)
1: ...arpness of the human eye. In practical use, most optical telegraphs used [[relay league]]s to bridge longe...
3: ... century]] a complete and working installation of optical telegraph. During the [[French Revolution|Revolut...
7: ...s and dashes. More mobile than previous means of optical telegraphy, this code was used extensively by the...

Optical fiber (10568 bytes)
1: ...e:fibreoptic.jpg|thumb|Fiber Optic strands]]An '''optical fiber''' in American English or '''fibre''' in Br...
2: ... branch of science and engineering concerned with optical fibers.
4: == Uses of optical fiber ==
6: ...plications are always glass, because of the lower optical absorption of glass. The light transmitted throug...
12: ... linearity and dispersion behavior of single-mode optical fiber, data rates of up to 40 [[gigabit]]s per se...

Optical isomerism (6502 bytes)
2: ...able [[mirror image]]s^* of each other. Optical isomers are known as ''[[chirality (chemistry)|ch...
4: ...since stereoisomerism needn't necessarily imply [[optical activity]]).
21: ==Properties of optical isomers==
33: ... The designations (+) and (-), however, indicate optical isomers that rotate plane polarized light to the ...
37: ...light based upon the concentrations of all of the optically active isomers in the solution, and the amount ...

Optical brightener (976 bytes)
1: An '''optical brightener''' is an additive designed to enhance ...
3: ...s also means that a white surface treated with an optical brightener may actually reflect more visible spec...
5: ...nation. Paper used for banknotes does not contain optical brighteners, so a common method for detecting [[f...

Optical autocorrelation (7074 bytes)
5: [[image:optical-field-autocorrelation-setup.png|thumb|400px|right...
19: [[image:optical-field-autocorrelation.png|thumb|500px|center|Two ...
27: ...\tau))^2</math>. Only the beam propagating on the optical axis, proportional to the cross-product <math>E(t...
37: [[image:optical-intensity-autocorrelation.png|thumb|500px|center|...
41: [[image:optical-interferometric-autocorrelation-setup.png|thumb|4...

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