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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.
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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
Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan Department of Retinal Disease Control… 
2008
2008
A 3MPixel Multi-Aperture Image Sensor with 0.7μm Pixels in 0.11μm CMOS
In this paper we describe the first complete MA-imager chip comprising a 166x76 array of 16x16, 0.7mum pixel FT-CCD apertures… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Sol−Gel Materials for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics
Sol−gel processing of new materials for second-order nonlinear optics promises to be a simple and highly versatile synthetic… 
1995
1995
Giant anomalies of the thermal expansion at the spin-Peierls transition in CuGeO3.
The thermal-expansion coefficients \ensuremath{\alpha} of the spin-Peierls cuprate ${\mathrm{CuGeO}}_{3}$ have been measured… 
1991
1991
All optical, high contrast absorptive modulation in an asymmetric Fabry-Perot étalon
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… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Two-band density-matrix approach to nonlinear optics of excitons.
Etude de la dynamique de la matrice de densite a deux bandes d'un semiconducteur pilote par un champ lumineux intense dans une… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Electro-optics and dielectrics of macromolecules and colloids
Theoretical Advances.- Specific Kerr Constants of Rigid, Ellipsoidal Macromolecules in Conducting Solution at Very Low Ionic… 
1970
1970
Optic atrophy, neural deafness, and distal neurogenic amyotrophy; report of a family with two affected siblings.
BILATERAL optic atrophy 1-9 and neurogenic deafness 8-10 are rarely associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. However… 
1970
1970
Similarities between congenital tritan defects and dominant optic-nerve atrophy: coincidence or identity?
Dominant inherited optic atrophy is usually a stationary disorder with typical findings of optic-nerve pallor, abnormal distance… 
1963
1963
BONE CHANGES IN ORBITAL NEUROFIBROMATOSIS.
Neurofibromatous involvement of the orbit and visual apparatus produces a distinctive (but not specific) radiological pattern…