Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

Joost van Mameren explains how quantitative force measurements by optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules 1 Forces at work in optical tweezers Qualitative ...

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (commonly referred to AMO Physics) is the study of the interaction between light and matter. Physicists study this interaction on various scales, from the atomic ...

As the world becomes more connected by global communications networks, the field of free-space optical communications has grown as an alternative to traditional data transmission via RF frequencies.