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  2. Optical instrument - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of some of the optical devices available for laboratory work in England in 1858. An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic properties.

  3. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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  4. Optical fiber - Wikipedia

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    A bundle of optical fibers A TOSLINK fiber optic audio cable with red light shone in one end. An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light [a] from one end to the other.

  5. Beam splitter - Wikipedia

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    Phase shift through a beam splitter with a dielectric coating. Beam splitters are sometimes used to recombine beams of light, as in a Mach–Zehnder interferometer.In this case there are two incoming beams, and potentially two outgoing beams.

  6. Relascope - Wikipedia

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    Relascope usage. The Relascope is used by looking through the hole in the front of the instrument. When users look through this hole they will see several scales that are used for different measurements on the bottom half of their view, and on the top half they will see the tree that they are looking at.

  7. Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester (a physics laboratory). A laboratory (UK: / l ə ˈ b ɒr ə t ər i /; US: / ˈ l æ b r ə t ɔːr i /; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.

  8. Optically stimulated luminescence - Wikipedia

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    In physics, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) is a method for measuring doses from ionizing radiation.It is used in at least two applications: Luminescence dating of ancient materials: mainly geological sediments and sometimes fired pottery, bricks etc., although in the latter case thermoluminescence dating is used more often

  9. Apollo-Optik - Wikipedia

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    Apollo-Optik store. Apollo-Optik is a German optics company owned by EssilorLuxottica focusing on retail eyewear. It shares its logo with British eyewear retailer VisionExpress, which is also a brand of EssilorLuxottica. It was founded 1972 in Schwabach and is operating in 40 countries. It is the biggest optics company in Europe.