Applications

doi:10.1117/3.2265067.ch4

Applications

Book: Optics Made Clear: The Nature of Light and How We Use It

Author(s): William L. Wolfe

Published: 2006

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2265067.ch4

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Abstract

This chapter is a collection of optical applications I have gathered for more than ten years. They range from some very simple detectors for security to complex devices to control manufacturing processes, aircraft, and rockets. I have divided them into various categories to provide some organization, but they could just as well have been presented in a different order. There are surely more optics applications in our lives, but these are all I have found or remembered.