His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

In the early 11th century, Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ) wrote the Book of Optics ( Kitab al-manazir ) in which he explored reflection and refraction and proposed a new system for explaining vision and light based on observation and experiment.

— Claudius Ptolemy ( in his work Optics ) wrote about the properties of light including: reflection, refraction, and color and tabulated angles of refraction for several media

Free Space Optics are additionally used for communications between spacecraft.

* Free Space Optics on COST297 for HAPs

Preparations for the new Adaptive Optics Facility in UT4.

Most notable for the Alfa Matrix signed bands, Zombie Girl ( on the album Blood Brains and Rock ' n ' Roll ) and also for another female fronted industrial metal act I: Scintilla who released their album " Optics " on the Belgian industrial label Alfa Matrix holding a bonus disc with a remix by Mortiis beside others by Combichrist, Clan Of Xymox.

Free Space Optics ( FSO ) systems are generally employed for ' last mile ' communications and can function over distances of several kilometers as long as there is a clear line of sight between the source and the destination, and the optical receiver can reliably decode the transmitted information.

; High-Contrast Coronographic Imager for Adaptive Optics ( HiCIAO ): Infrared camera for hunting planets around other stars.

Like other Asharites who believed that faith or taqlid should only apply to Islam and not to any ancient Hellenistic authorities, Ibn al-Haytham's view that taqlid should only apply to prophets of Islam and not to any other authorities formed the basis for much of his scientific skepticism and criticism against Ptolemy and other ancient authorities in his Doubts Concerning Ptolemy and Book of Optics.

* The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering ( IOF )

* OP-TEC-National Science Foundation's National Center for Optics and Photonics Education

Examples of manufacturers catering for the advanced amateur astronomer market include Alluna Optics, Astrosib, Deep Sky Instruments, Guan Sheng Optical, Officina Stellare, Optical Guidance Systems, RC Optical Systems and Takahashi.

* Optics Express, 1997-present, an open access journal for the rapid publication of short papers in all fields of optical science and technology.

* Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, 2006-present, a compilation of all biomedical articles published in OSA's peer-reviewed journals.

* International Commission for Optics

In February 2011, Dr Andrew Truscott, leader of a research team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at Australian National University in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, showed that helium atoms cooled to near absolute zero / Bose-Einstein condensate state, can be made to flow and behave as a coherent beam as occurs in a laser.

* Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy

* ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics

After he explained this to the Society, he proceeded: " When I understood this, I left off my aforesaid glass works ; for I saw, that the perfection of telescopes was hitherto limited, not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of Optics Authors ( which all men have hitherto imagined ), as because that light itself is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays.

* Prof Charles Gorrie Wynne, worked for Taylor, Taylor & Hobson ( now Cooke Optics ) and invented important optical lens techniques, and was Editor from 1954-65 of Optica Acta ( 1922-9 )

One of the first technological precursors of film is the pinhole camera, followed by the more advanced camera obscura, which was first described in detail by Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), and later perfected by Giambattista della Porta.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

His Optics is a work that survives only in a poor Arabic translation and in about twenty manuscripts of a Latin version of the Arabic, which was translated by Eugene of Palermo ( c. 1154 ).

It was first demonstrated by a team at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck in Austria in December 2005.

* 1021 – Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ) of Basra, Iraq writes his influential Book of Optics from 1011 to 1021 ( while he was under house arrest in Egypt ),

The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the instruments after characters in Astrid Lindgren's books: PIPPI ( Prelude in Planetary Particle Imaging ), EMIL ( Electron Measurements-In-situ and Lightweight ), and MIO ( Miniature Imaging Optics ).

This was included in his list of inventions in his book, " Mechanics and Optics ".

This X-ray image of Cygnus X-1 was taken by a balloon-borne telescope, the High Energy Replicated Optics ( HERO ) project.

His Book of Optics was translated into Italian in the 14th century as Deli Aspecti, and was quoted at length in Ghiberti's “ Commentario terzo .” Author A.

In the Book of Optics ( c. 1025 AD ), his scientific method was very similar to the modern scientific method and consisted of the following procedures:

In 2006, Meyer was recognized as honorary doctor of Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.

In 1981, JDS Optics was founded by Jozef Straus, Philip Garel-Jones, Gary Duck, and Bill Sinclair.

In 1903 – 04 a separate Technical Optics department was established.

A further account was given in the first edition of Newton's Optics ( 1704 ).

The Optics was originally a national discipline in 1980s, but not as much currently.

Initially called the side-looking radar project, it was carried out by a group first known as the Radar Laboratory and later as the Radar and Optics Laboratory.

The Nikkor brand was introduced in 1932, a Westernised rendering of an earlier version Nikkō ( 日光 ), an abbreviation of the company's original full name Nippon Kōgaku (" Japan Optics "; 日本光学工業株式会社 ).

* ADONIS, an acronym for ADaptive Optics Near Infrared System, was a second-generation adaptive optics system for the astronomical community.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

Optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians.

and influenced the more famous 11th century Optics by Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham ).

Latin translation of the Book of Optics ( 1021 ), written by the Islamic physics | Iraqi physicist, Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ).

* 1021 – The Book of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen or Alhacen ) is completed.

1030-Treasury of Optics by Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ) of Iraq and Egypt

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