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Graduate Ray tracing- Is luminance being traced?
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Undergrad Begineers' books on Photonic Stuctures/ Crystals
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High School Is this representation of a photon correct
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Graduate Why in Huygens–Fresnel, Point source should be as small as wavelength?
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Graduate Compton scattering and momentum
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Graduate Calculate % Excitation of Sample X w/ Laser Pulsed Source
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Graduate Calculating Light Intensity in Diffraction Orders
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Undergrad Single Slit Diffraction effects
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Undergrad Difference between physical reach and logical reach of fibre optic
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Undergrad Explaining the Lens Equation: Why h' & h Positive, s' Negative & s Positive?
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Undergrad Race of Light Rays in Vacuum and Water: Winner or Tie?
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Graduate Focused diffraction and Fourier transform
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Graduate Frustrated total internal reflection: Where does energy come from?
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Undergrad How does the wavelength of a water wave affect diffraction?
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Graduate Diffraction Orders: Tilted Light Arrays & Incident Lights
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Undergrad Does optical switch have another name?
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Undergrad Optics: white object reflection properties
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Undergrad Focusing laser beams with concave and convex lenses
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High School How to differentiate between refraction and diffraction of waves?
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Undergrad Monochromatic light vs Laser - Young's double slit
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Graduate What are Fourier transforms of optics?
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Undergrad Radio waves emitted by an inductively coupled power transfer system
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High School Can aluminum foil block the sun's UVA rays?
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Graduate Difference between Gaussian and Airy
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Graduate What is causing a green light to appear when shining a UV laser through glass?
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Graduate Why we use anomalous dispersion in FWM?
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Graduate LW Infrared Trasmissivity of Air
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Graduate How Short Can a Wave of Light Be?
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High School Can we see past from light from nearby galaxy?
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Undergrad Phase velocity faster than light?
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High School Why Does My Reflection Appear Normal on My Inverted iPad Screen?
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High School ?Radio Waves vs Visible Light: Is it Correct?
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Undergrad IR and UV absorption of materials
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Graduate Sound & Light Wave Speed & Transfer: Explained
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Graduate Why does second order susceptibility become zero in centrosymmetric media?
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Undergrad How Does Diffraction Grating Reveal CD and DVD Storage Capacities?
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Graduate How Does the Raman Effect Impact SSFM in Nonlinear Fiber Optics?
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Undergrad Light and Sound Waves: Theoretical Analogies and Differences
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Avoiding hotspots in a microwave oven.
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High School Light waves and their properties
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Graduate Overall Intensity of Destructively Interfering Waves
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Undergrad Intensity for circular polarised light through linear polariser
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Graduate Need to Refocus Projected Image Through Microscope Objective
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Undergrad Reflection of sound. Changes to its properties.
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Graduate Diffraction pattern's dependency on wavelength
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High School Is Light Wave Always Linearly Polarized?
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Graduate What SLM is suitable for correcting beam profile aberrations?
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Undergrad Interference patterns in thin films
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Graduate Why doesn't gravity speed up light?
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Graduate Single and multimode optical fibers
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Undergrad Reflection, transparency and Absorption
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Undergrad Amount of water evaporated by laser, questionable results.
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Graduate Fluid Mechanics and order of magnitude calculation
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High School What is a Wavefront? Understanding it
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High School Please help i cant understand anything about diffraction grating
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Graduate Is there a limit to the amount of information a photon can carry?
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Undergrad Why don't we see scattered wavelengths of light?
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Undergrad Manipulating Light: Stabilizing Beams Like Lasers
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Undergrad Smallest Difference in Wavelength the Human Eye Can Notice
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High School AP Physics B: Understanding Diffraction
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Undergrad Does Colour Affect Light Absorption in Infrared Radiation?
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Graduate Optical Misalignment: Estimating Error and Its Impact on Focal Length
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Undergrad Single slit diffraction problem
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High School Lens Reflection: Does Light Bounce Off?
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Undergrad Comparing Standing Waves, Beats & Interference of Waves
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High School What is the dark border around light phenomenon called?
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Undergrad Understanding Light Physics: Tips and Tricks for Beginners
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Graduate Kramers-Kronig relations for the wavenumber
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Graduate Faster Than Light Travel: Theory and Possibility
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Undergrad Why do we see diffraction effects in radio waves but not in visible light?
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Graduate Optical Transfer Function of a microscope
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Undergrad No change in wavelength of a monochromatic light
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Undergrad Is the CD Phenomenon Related to Young's Fringes?
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Graduate Are photons/light a special property?
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Undergrad Image from object at a focal point of mirror
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Undergrad Understanding X-Ray Emission from Colliding Electrons
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Undergrad How Do Polarizing Filters Work?
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Graduate Classical explanation of double slit polarization experiment
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High School Double-Line Exp: Seeing Interference Pattern Explained
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Undergrad Calculating Intensity of Fringes with Young's Formula | Fringe Width Calculation
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Undergrad Anti-reflective coating confusion
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Graduate Strange reflectance from periodic structure
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Graduate Optics: Whispering gallery modes in large systems
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Graduate Transparent Materials to Radar between 4-8 GHz
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Graduate What are the two polarization states in 2D light?
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High School How Does Light Transmit Object Information to Our Eyes?
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Graduate Acceleration of an object to the speed of light.
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Undergrad Understanding Geometric Optics: The Role of Ray Intersection in Image Position
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Undergrad What is the blackbody problem and the ultraviolet catastrophe?
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Graduate Diffraction grating: arbitrary incident angle
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Undergrad One Way mirror solar panel sphere.
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High School Does the incidence angle and refraction angle have to add up to 90
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Undergrad Double and single slit experiments - parallel light beams?
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Undergrad Calculating laser fluence - so confused
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Graduate Understanding Degenerate and Hybrid Modes in Rib Waveguide Structures
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Undergrad Colour planes still existing after filtering
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Graduate Total internal reflection for a long time
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Graduate Stimulated Brillouin scattering inside an optical fiber
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Graduate Can a force be applied to a photon in the direction of its travel?
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Undergrad The Principle of Fizeau's Method: How a Toothed Wheel Helps Measure Light
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