optics
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- History
- Classical optics
- Geometrical optics
- Approximations
- Reflections
- Refractions
- Lenses
- Physical optics
- Modelling and design of optical systems using physical optics
- Superposition and interference
- Diffraction and optical resolution
- Dispersion and scattering
- Polarisation <span class="anchor" id="Polarization"></span>
- Changing polarisation
- Natural light
- Modern optics
- Lasers
- Kapitsa–Dirac effect
- Applications
- Human eye
- Visual effects<!--linked from 'Practical effect'-->
- Optical instruments
- Photography
- Atmospheric optics
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
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Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour, manipulation, and detection of electromagnetic radiation, including its interactions with matter and instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. The study of optics extends to other forms of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves, microwaves, and X-rays. The term optics is also applied to technology for manipulating beams of elementary charged particles.