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Optics is the study of light, and its interaction with matter. It includes topics such as imaging systems, fiber optics, lasers, quantum optics, and more.

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Is it possible to "change the focal plane" of a 2d image?

Can we apply some type of transformation to 2D image in such a way that when a person looks at it directly (i.e. focuses on the paper or the computer screen which displays the image), it is blurry; ho …
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Can you use a digital camera CCD to make an image without a lens?

What would you be able to see if you took off the lens of a digital camera and placed a drop of pond water containing microbes/amoebas directly on the sensor? Would you be able to see an image? The re …
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How can imaging spectrometers identify minerals on earth from satellites

I've seen descriptions of satellites orbiting earth which can create maps of continents with elements represented as colors on a map, how can they do this? I understand how a heated black body emits r …
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How did the first CRT monitors with Beam Penetration create a full set of colors?

Was reading about early CRT methods and came across the idea of Beam penetration, which from what I can tell was the first method of using these devices to make color images: two layers of phosphors s …
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