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Quantum Optics: Photons and Information
Light-Matter Interactions: Absorption & Emission
Optical Imaging: Lenses and Resolution Limits
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1/f = 1/do + 1/di
2D Fourier Transform
3D Cinema
3D Displays
3D Imaging
3D imaging
3D printing
3D Tissue Imaging
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Abbe Diffraction Limit
Abbe's Resolution Limit
Abbe's Sine Condition
Aberration
Aberration analysis
Aberrations
Absorption
Absorption band
Absorption Coefficient
Absorption coefficient
Absorption losses
Absorption spectrum
Achromatic doublets
Acoustic phonons
Acousto-optic effect
Acousto-optic modulator
Active medium
Active Q-switching
Active q-switching
Adaptive optics
Adaptive Optics
Afterglow
Airy disk
Airy function
Airy pattern
Albert Einstein
Albert Michelson
All-optical signal processing
American National Standards Institute
Amplitude
Amplitude Modulation
Angular dispersion
Angular frequency
Angular intensity distribution
Angular resolution
Angular Resolution Limit
Angular spectrum
Angular spectrum method
Anharmonicity
Anisotropic
Annihilation operator
ANSI Z136
ANSI Z136 Standards
Anti-aliasing
Anti-stokes scattering
Antibunching
Aperture
Aperture
Aperture size
Arabidopsis
Argon-ion laser
Arrayed waveguide gratings
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Arthur Schawlow
Aspect Experiment
Aspheric Surfaces
Aspheric surfaces
Astigmatism
Astronomical interferometry
Atomic emission spectroscopy
Attenuation
Attosecond Science
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