Optics

Useful and/or Interesting Links:

• PhET Interactive Simulations
• FSU Molecular Expressions
• If you are interested in how microwaves heat objects, you need to know something about water and dielectrics (and be aware of microwave oven myths).

• External references on illumination and spectral lines.
• The History of the Laser from the Center for History of Physics at the AIP (visit the Exhibits link).
• Olympus Micrsocopy Resource Center
• Optical Aberrations (both sites have the same cool Java simulations)
  • Olympus Disscussion
  • Molecular Expressions Overview (FSU)
• GRadient INdex Lens (GRIN)
  • Harvard Lecture Demo
  • GRIN Lens at MIT
• Seidel Aberrations
  • Prof Wyant's Optics (Univ. of Arizona)
• Imaging at a Trillion Frames per Second, TED Talk by Ramesh Raskar

Optics, visualizing to aid your imagination

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