Optics

Optics

According to Pedrotti et al. (2017), Optics is one of the branches of physics which deals with the study of the properties of light and its behavior when it interacts with objects. It mainly illustrates the character and behavior of ultraviolet, infrared and visible light. Optics comprises of two significant branches the geometrical and physical branches. The geometrical optics is mostly linked to the principles that govern the image-forming properties of mirrors, lenses and other devices which uses light. Physical branch major mainly with the original features and nature of light itself. Optics comprises optical data processing that involves the manipulation of the information content of an image formed by coherent optical systems.

Previously optics was applied only in connection to the eye and vision after sometimes other devices and lenses aiding vision started to be developed, these were known as optical instruments, and the meaning of optics expanded to cover any application of light.  During the 20^th century, visual methods came to be applied more to areas of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum and not visible light to the eye, such as ultraviolet, microwave radio waves and X-rays and at the moment these areas are included in the field of optics (Kuzyk 2018).

In the present article, the image-forming properties of mirrors, lenses and other devices which make use of light are considered. Quantum and the wave nature of light, wavelength, diffraction, velocity and inference can be found in light. The analysis of light into its component colours by grafting and prisms forms the basis of the extensive field of spectroscopy.

Optics plays an essential role in photonics, mainly regarding several properties of light and its transmission, for example through explicit optical materials. It also has very significant economic significance as an enabler for the majority of other contemporary technologies. Although a lot of information about the generation and detection of light is outside the field of optics, that deals mostly with the propagation of light. Photonics is maintaining up of vital fields like laser physics that interface with optical physics (Kamandar Dezfouli and Hughes 2017).

References

Kamandar Dezfouli, M., & Hughes, S. (2017). Quantum optics model of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for arbitrarily shaped plasmonic resonators. ACS Photonics, 4(5), 1245-1256.

Kuzyk, M. G. (2018). Polymer Fiber Optics: materials, physics, and applications. CRC press.

Pedrotti, F. L., Pedrotti, L. M., & Pedrotti, L. S. (2017). Introduction to optics. Cambridge University Press.