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Why do higher frequency light waves bend more in a prism?
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Is the EM field the medium for light waves
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How Does the Three Slit Interference Pattern Differ from the Two Slit Pattern?
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Classic double-slit experiment in a new light
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Illustration about the "relativity" of light
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Photon propagation? Is this correct?
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The speed of light in glass and water
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Discover How to Efficiently Polarize Microwave Radiation | 1mm Wavelength
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Why does PPG (photoplethysmography) Use Infrared and Green Both Light
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What's the mode of light in single-mode fiber?
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Reflection (intrinsic and characteristic impedance effects)
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Polarized Light -- Idea for headlight safety
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Energy of a material with permanent polarization
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Normal incidence of light on a denser medium
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Conservation of angular momentum in scattering processes
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Received power for free space optics
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Understanding FLP Vol 1, Section 30.1: Struggling w/Magnitude & Phase
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Varying thickness diffraction grating
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Do Photons Have Mass?
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What is meant by Spectral and Spatial Shaping of a laser
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Can a photon attract another photon?
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Optics to act as a mirror or transparent medium depending on incident angle
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Infinite light polarizers in an array
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Reading optics diagrams: Glan-Taylor
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Optical effect seen on a bus: mirrored screen shows different colors
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Relation of laser pulse length and the Output Coupler trasmissivity
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On Rayleigh Scattering and UV Light Absorption
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Calculation of Light Intensity
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Is this the simplest optical cloak possible?
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Optical filter that blocks infrared and allows UV?
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Photons on a Super Cooled Area
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Relationship between Reflectance and Albedo
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Are Photons Reflected Directly from Surfaces or Re-emitted by Atoms?
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Question regarding Ray Optics and Probability
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Does Gravity Deflect Light according to Newtonian Mechanics?
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Why aren't we getting burned up by light?
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Why Don't All Photons from Distant Stars Reach Us?
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Are superpositions of waves with different c still waves?
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High-Energy Photon: What Happens?
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Emission of light from a surface
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Amplitude vs Magnitude: Explaining the Probability Density
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Self-phase modulation question (nonlinear optics)
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Question about main laser parameters
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How does light split into colors?
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Geometrical Optics - Light ray angles on a spherical mirror
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The change in magnitude of centripetal acceleration
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The use of plano convex lens in a slide projector
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Wavelength of light changing in a medium
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Is there refraction upon frustrated total internal reflection
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Energy lost through photon emission
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"Total" destructive interference of plane waves
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Frequency of Differently Coloured Light
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How Does Optical Coherence Tomography Work to Image Different Tissue Layers?
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Are these explanations for color/light-absorption correct?
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A question about optics: Why does a pinhole aperture work like my eyeglasses?
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Optics: Huygens' principle and bending of light
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How does the size between scatterers affect reflection?
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Could you focus light from Sol's corona?
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Tangential velocity in polar coordinates
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Does light move, or does space and time move past light?
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Stopping Light in Air: Myth or Reality?
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Can we see radio waves or other invisible waves with our eyes?
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Phase shift and circular polarization
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Cause of polarisation due to reflection?
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Understanding a Generalization of Snell's Law
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Geometric Optics Approximation - validity
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Light propagation in water -- Is the scattering Rayleigh scattering?
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Angle relationships of a blazed diffraction grating
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Optics Experiment involving transmission through a gel and a sphere
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How Black Holes Absorb Light Despite Photons Being Massless
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Refraction of Light Wave: What Causes It?
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How to calculate the energy in gamma photons
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Scattering from lossy medium whose refractive index is unity
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Rayleigh Scattering calculation
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Transmission of blue light through ceramics and surface roughness effects
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Relative eye safety of infrared and ultraviolet lasers
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How does ultraviolet photography (fluorescence) work?
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Radial Acceleration in Polar/Cylindrical Coordinates
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Nonlinear Optics: third-order susceptibility
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What happens to waves with different polarizations in a wire grid polarizer?
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Atmospheric Refraction: Temperature, Distance, Object Shape
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Fuel cell mass flow rate magnitudes
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Do Blue Light Filters Actually Work?
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Physics of Light/Infrared for Solar Stills Research
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Intensity of a Gaussian laser beam
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A one light-year circuit of christmas lights
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How are Photons massless? How can a particle have no Mass?
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Average number of photons in a atom at a given temprature
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Classically communicate information faster then light?
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Optics question -- Object and Image on the optical axis....
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How do microwave plasmas work?
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Light wavelength transmission through ice
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Can Gamma Rays Be Artificially Directed?
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Do Photons Have Mass and How Do They Interact in LASERs?
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Can Colder Bodies Send Photons to Hotter Ones?
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Does Light Travel Through Fiber Optic Cable Generate EMF?
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Mass of Photon: What's the Proper Explanation?
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Why is the speed of light what it is?
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Formal term for cross-polarization effect
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Can I get different frequencies from He-Ne Laser ?
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