Challenges Faced by Optics
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Title: | Challenges Faced by Optics |
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Authors: | Beléndez, Augusto |
Research Group/s: | Holografía y Procesado Óptico | GITE - Física, óptica y Telecomunicaciones |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Física Aplicada a las Ciencias y las Tecnologías |
Keywords: | Optics | Photonics | Light |
Knowledge Area: | Óptica |
Date Created: | 20-Mar-2015 |
Issue Date: | 31-Mar-2015 |
Publisher: | International Year of Light - Blog |
Abstract: | Optics is the branch of physics that deals with visible light and other electromagnetic waves. Light has a “dual personality” since it sometimes behaves like a wave and other times like corpuscles or discrete packets of energy called photons. This is known as its “wave-corpuscle duality”. Just as the term electronics was derived from electron, in recent years the term Photonics has been coined from photon. Although the terms optics and photonics are often used indiscriminately, the latter is sometimes used to underline the corpuscular nature of light. The number of devices and systems that operate with light is constantly increasing and the many different fields in which these are used are referred to as “light-based technologies”. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/46146 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/contributionToPeriodical |
Rights: | Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 |
Peer Review: | no |
Publisher version: | http://light2015blog.org/2015/03/31/challenges-faced-by-optics/ |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GHPO - Año Internacional de la Luz (IYL2015) GITE - FOT - Comunicación y Divulgación de la Física INV - GHPO - Divulgación y Comunicación de la Ciencia GITE - FOT - Año Internacional de la Luz (IYL2015) |
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