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  2. Fata Morgana (mirage) - Wikipedia

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    A Fata Morgana seen over the Baltic Sea, 2016. The mirage consists of multiple upright and inverted images over the original object. A Fata Morgana of a container ship seen off the coast of Oceanside, California A Fata Morgana changing the shape of a distant boat

  3. 6-APA - Wikipedia

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    6-APA ((+)-6-aminopenicillanic acid) is a chemical compound used as an intermediate in the synthesis of β–lactam antibiotics. The major commercial source of 6-APA is still natural penicillin G. The semi-synthetic penicillins derived from 6-APA are also referred to as penicillins and are considered part of the penicillin family of antibiotics ...

  4. Optical microscope - Wikipedia

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    Scientist using an optical microscope in a laboratory. 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 magnified images of small objects.

  5. Optical flow - Wikipedia

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    Optical flow or optic flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects, surfaces, and edges in a visual scene caused by the relative motion between an observer and a scene. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Optical flow can also be defined as the distribution of apparent velocities of movement of brightness pattern in an image.

  6. Optical instrument - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of some of the optical devices available for laboratory work in England in 1858. An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic properties.

  7. Magneto-optical trap - Wikipedia

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    Experimental setup of the MOT. In atomic, molecular, and optical physics, a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially varying magnetic field to create a trap which can produce samples of cold neutral atoms.

  8. Optics - Wikipedia

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    Fibre-optic communication relies on lasers to transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light. Other common applications of lasers include laser printers and laser pointers . Lasers are used in medicine in areas such as bloodless surgery , laser eye surgery , and laser capture microdissection and in military applications such as ...

  9. Optical amplifier - Wikipedia

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    [6] Gould co-founded an optical telecommunications equipment firm, Optelecom Inc. , that helped start Ciena Corp with his former head of Light Optics Research, David Huber and Kevin Kimberlin . Huber and Steve Alexander of Ciena invented the dual-stage optical amplifier [ 7 ] ( U.S. patent 5,159,601 ) that was a key to the first dense wave ...