Optics And Photonics 25-34
10 entries in the Optics And Photonics compendium.
Planckian locusPath of black body color as temperature changes in chromaticity space.Plane waveA wave model with constant value on perpendicular planes.Ray (optics)Geometrical model of light propagation used in optical analysis.Rayleigh scatteringRayleigh scattering explains why the sky is blue.Reflection coefficientParameter describing wave reflection at impedance discontinuities.Snell's lawLaw describing refraction of light between two isotropic media.Spherical aberrationSpherical aberration degrades image quality in spherical optical systems.Stokes parametersSet of values describing polarization state of electromagnetic radiation.Superposition principleNet response equals sum of individual responses in linear systems.WaveA propagating disturbance that transfers energy through space and time.
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