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  2. Diffraction - Wikipedia

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    A diffraction pattern of a red laser beam projected onto a plate after passing through a small circular aperture in another plate. Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.

  3. Multifocal diffractive lens - Wikipedia

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    A multifocal diffractive lens is a diffractive optical element (DOE) that allows a single incident beam to be focused simultaneously at several positions along the propagation axis. [ 1 ] Example of multifocal peak intensity distribution along optical axis.(Courtesy of Holo/Or) Intensity distribution of multifocal lens 5 foci in Z-X plane

  4. Ocean optics - Wikipedia

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    While ocean color is a key theme of ocean optics, optics is a broader term that also includes the development of underwater sensors using optical methods to study much more than just color, including ocean chemistry, particle size, imaging of microscopic plants and animals, and more.

  5. Diffraction-limited system - Wikipedia

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    In a digital camera, diffraction effects interact with the effects of the regular pixel grid. The combined effect of the different parts of an optical system is determined by the convolution of the point spread functions (PSF). The point spread function of a diffraction limited circular-aperture lens is simply the Airy disk. The point spread ...

  6. Dispersion (optics) - Wikipedia

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    In photographic and microscopic lenses, dispersion causes chromatic aberration, which causes the different colors in the image not to overlap properly. Various techniques have been developed to counteract this, such as the use of achromats, multielement lenses with glasses of different dispersion. They are constructed in such a way that the ...

  7. Physical optics - Wikipedia

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    Physical optics is used to explain effects such as diffraction. In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.

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  9. Interferometry - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of wavefront splitting interferometer include the Fresnel biprism, the Billet Bi-Lens, diffraction-grating Michelson interferometer, [14] and the Rayleigh interferometer. [15] Figure 5. Two wavefront splitting interferometers. In 1803, Young's interference experiment played a major role in the general acceptance of the wave ...