Electromagnetic scattering and physical optics represent pivotal areas in modern applied physics, underpinning a wide range of technologies from radar sensing to remote imaging. These topics ...

Classical optics, rooted in the laws of reflection and refraction that treat light as rays, has long provided a practical framework for imaging and illumination. By contrast, physical optics delves ...

With an applied physics: optics degree, you’ll gain specialized expertise in optics, preparing you for diverse career opportunities in technology, research, and academia. Become who you’re meant to be ...

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 ...

Explore the laws of matter and energy while mastering physics concepts that explain the universe, power innovation, and matter and energy. Participate in paid cooperative education and hands-on ...

First or second year graduate students in BME, Physics, and Electrical Engineering departments. Students should have completed undergraduate physics curriculum including electricity and magnetism and ...

Yale physicist A. Douglas Stone has won the 2025 Max Born Award for his groundbreaking work in optics research, which includes more than 150 published research articles and multiple patents for ...

(Nanowerk News) Developed at Harvard, and successfully tested at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), a revolutionary new meta-optics for microscopes with extremely high spatial and temporal ...

Quasi-normal modes, namely the complex frequencies encoding the linear response of resonators under tiny perturbations, have acquired major importance in recent years in different settings of physics, ...

Ray Optics often overwhelms Class 12 students due to formulas and sign conventions. An expert board examiner explains why rote learning fails and how visual thinking, ray diagrams, and conceptual ...