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Optics
Known as:
Optical
, optic
, science of light and vision
The branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter.
National Institutes of Health
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Multidisciplinary Ophthalmic Imaging Laser Speckle and Hydrogen Gas Clearance Measurements of Optic Nerve Circulation in Albino and Pigmented Rabbits With or Without Optic Disc Atrophy
Naoko Aizawa
,
Fumihiko Nitta
,
+4 authors
T. Nakazawa
2014
Corpus ID: 4511065
Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan Department of Retinal Disease Control…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Quantum Optics: An Introduction
W. Vogel
,
D. Welsch
,
S. Wallentowitz
2006
Corpus ID: 118144023
Introduction. Elements of quantum electrodynamics. Quantum states of bosonic systems. Phase--space representations. Quantum…
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Sol−Gel Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics
Frederic Chaumel
,
Hongwei Jiang
,
A. Kakkar
2001
Corpus ID: 54038758
Sol−gel processing of new materials for second-order nonlinear optics promises to be a simple and highly versatile synthetic…
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1995
1995
Giant anomalies of the thermal expansion at the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3.
Winkelmann
,
Gamper
,
Büchner
,
Braden
,
Revcolevschi
,
Dhalenne
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
1995
Corpus ID: 1944475
The thermal-expansion coefficients \ensuremath{\alpha} of the spin-Peierls cuprate ${\mathrm{CuGeO}}_{3}$ have been measured…
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1992
1992
Piezo-optics of GaAs.
Etchegoin
,
Kircher
,
Cardona
,
Grein
,
Bustarret
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
1992
Corpus ID: 41029038
We have obtained the three independent complex components P 11 (ω), P 12 (ω), and P 44 (ω) of the linear piezo-optical tensor P…
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1991
1991
All optical, high contrast absorptive modulation in an asymmetric Fabry-Perot étalon
J. Heffernan
,
M. H. Moloney
,
J. Hegarty
,
J. Roberts
,
M. Whitehead
1991
Corpus ID: 14890190
We report a 27:1 switching contrast ratio with 2.5 mW of power in an asymmetric Fabry–Perot etalon. The modulation is achieved by…
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Two-band density-matrix approach to nonlinear optics of excitons.
Balslev
,
Zimmermann
,
Stahl
Physical Review B (Condensed Matter)
1989
Corpus ID: 2731543
Etude de la dynamique de la matrice de densite a deux bandes d'un semiconducteur pilote par un champ lumineux intense dans une…
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1970
1970
Optic atrophy, neural deafness, and distal neurogenic amyotrophy; report of a family with two affected siblings.
H. Iwashita
,
N. Inoue
,
S. Araki
,
Y. Kuroiwa
Archives of Neurology
1970
Corpus ID: 36390847
BILATERAL optic atrophy 1-9 and neurogenic deafness 8-10 are rarely associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. However…
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1970
1970
Similarities between congenital tritan defects and dominant optic-nerve atrophy: coincidence or identity?
A. Krill
,
V. Smith
,
J. Pokorny
Journal of the Optical Society of America
1970
Corpus ID: 21237531
Dominant inherited optic atrophy is usually a stationary disorder with typical findings of optic-nerve pallor, abnormal distance…
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1963
1963
BONE CHANGES IN ORBITAL NEUROFIBROMATOSIS.
E. H. Burrows
British Journal of Radiology
1963
Corpus ID: 28570443
Neurofibromatous involvement of the orbit and visual apparatus produces a distinctive (but not specific) radiological pattern…
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