 | In optical engineering, an objective is an optical element that gathers light from an object being observed and focuses the light rays from it to produce... 9 KB (1,132 words) - 12:01, 8 February 2024 |
Look up objective or objectivé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Objective may refer to: Objective (optics), an element in a camera or microscope The... 649 bytes (115 words) - 09:20, 28 November 2023 |
 | Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments... 106 KB (12,848 words) - 20:35, 5 April 2024 |
 | Voigtländer (section Photography optics and cameras) producing the Petzval objective lens. From 1839, the year, when the invention of photography was being published, came objective optics and from 1840 complete... 24 KB (2,208 words) - 14:38, 28 March 2024 |
 | Diffraction-limited system (redirect from Diffraction-Limited Optics) In optics, any optical instrument or system – a microscope, telescope, or camera – has a principal limit to its resolution due to the physics of diffraction... 18 KB (2,357 words) - 14:46, 26 April 2024 |
Dioptrics (redirect from Dioptric objective) Dioptrics is the branch of optics dealing with refraction, especially by lenses. In contrast, the branch dealing with mirrors is known as catoptrics. Telescopes... 1 KB (159 words) - 01:35, 24 October 2023 |
 | Numerical aperture (category Optics) between different areas of optics. Numerical aperture is commonly used in microscopy to describe the acceptance cone of an objective (and hence its light-gathering... 16 KB (2,252 words) - 00:21, 27 April 2024 |
 | Angular resolution (redirect from Resolving power (optics)) thereby making it a major determinant of image resolution. It is used in optics applied to light waves, in antenna theory applied to radio waves, and in... 20 KB (2,327 words) - 02:21, 10 March 2024 |
 | Optical fiber (redirect from Fiber optics) concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. The term was coined by Indian-American physicist Narinder Singh Kapany... 94 KB (11,524 words) - 17:40, 14 April 2024 |
optical waveguides can be described using the concepts of geometrical or ray optics, as illustrated in the diagram. Light passing into a medium with higher... 15 KB (1,857 words) - 20:40, 30 October 2023 |