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Can we use the momentum of light to propagate spacecrafts in space?
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On board a laser powered solar sail
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How to calculate the number of photons
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Nonlinear Optics - Pockels effect
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Can the speed of light be constant and absolute?
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Why does the sun affect radio wave propagation?
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How a TFP (Thin Flim Polarizer) works?
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How to state the laws of refraction and apply them to....
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How to concentrate white light in a very small point?
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Why is the refractive index for red lower than for blue?
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Scattering dynamics and viscosity
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IR camera 1550 nm IR light source
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Interference puzzle - Where does the energy go?
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The reality of photons (real vs virtual etc)
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Is there a limit to how steep the refractive index gradient can be
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Parabolic shape configuration's effect on photon volume?
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Why the Frequency of Light Does Not Change Through a Medium
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Single photon and double slit experiment
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Speed of Light x2: Car Travel & Bullets Fired
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Why adding more polarized filters results in more light passing?
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How do we know that light that comes from the stars is in past?
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What's the amount of energy lost in Total Internal Reflection?
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Can Crystal Symmetry Explain the Lack of Optical Activity in Quartz?
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How many batteries does it take to light this bulb up?
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I have problem with a mirror on Michelson interferometer
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What will stop me from going at the speed of light?
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Real image appears in front of the mirror?
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Simulate other lenses with Time of Flight (ToF) camera
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Modes of Optical Fiber propagation
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Visible light communication modulation schemes?
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Sinusoids as Phasors, Complex Exp, I&Q and Polar form
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Does Phase Change on Reflection Violate Stokes Relation?
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Where can I get some hot mirror (near) infrared mirror) film
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Can a photon travel slow enough to be seen by the naked eye
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Difference between emission due to absorption and reflection
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Turning the refraction formula into reflection: Negative index
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Colored Light or Colored Object?
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Apply Sign Conventions in Optics Problems Using Lens and Mirror Equations?
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After a lightning bolt, what happens to the plasma?
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Possible to make speckles without a Laser?
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Sound Wave Interference: Investigating Null Results with Sound Level Meter Data
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What can I do with an infrared camera?
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Finding Uniform Focusing in Flexible Fresnel Lenses
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Light Reflection: A 3D Designer's Guide
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Photon Duration & Wavelength: Exploring the Mysteries
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Imaging optics and lowest possible angle video projection?
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Exploring Light Diffraction: Insights from Feynman's Books
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Intensity as light passes through two quarter-wave plates?
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When a photon is created, it instantly achieves the speed of light -- How?
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Does Snell's Law accurately explain light refraction in water?
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Light waves through polarizers: transverse or longitudinal?
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Light speed travel (now "understanding the difference between weight and mass")
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Infinitesimal, Snell's law, and ray tracing
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Lens Math for a Semicircle and Vesica Piscis?
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Obtaining 700nm light wavelength
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Is the index of refraction constant for a given medium?
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Overlaying light beams by one replacing the other where they intersect
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Reflection from a small spherical mirror
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Is there any phenomenon capable of replacing light?
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Reflection of light in metallic surface and glass
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Refraction of Ocean waves: Wide Headland vs Narrow
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What's the superposition principle for group action?
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Do Lights Move at the Same Speed?
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Why parts of the laser ray seem brighter than other parts
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3D subsurface laser engraving for translucent minerals?
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Rotating mirror system for shifting a beam?
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Velocity in polar coordinates (again)
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Collimated light from red dot scopes?
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Is the Speed of Light Limited by the Properties of Matter?
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Understanding Image Formation: Exploring the Role of Photons and Detectors
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Laser Gravity: Can a Laser Pull Gently?
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Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light
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Why the speed of light squared?
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Conservation of energy of a perfectly decoherent laser
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When I analyze elliptical polarization using a linear polarizer....
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How to create diffraction gratings from negative film
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Was the Ultraviolet Catastrophe a Real Problem or Just a Fake?
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Understanding Laser Safety Glasses: Wavelengths, Frequency, and Protection
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Is there free software for simulating near field diffraction
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Propagation of light in a vacuum
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Is the Ideal Lens Calculation Patentable?
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Why doesn't sunlight have infinite energy?
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Lightbulb and mini hydro generator
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Optics: Focusing Explained with an Owl
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Simple microscope and convex lens
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Reflection/transmission of waves at interfaces
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Can light be split by colour accurately?
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Relationship between interference and arm length in MZI
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Faster than the speed of light (pulling on a string)?
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Why hasn't gravity been solved for space flight
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Can a Laser Beam be Repeated Across Multiple Points?
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Why Raman spectroscope doesn't use 532nm laser ?.
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How Do Different Diffraction Grating Designs Affect Analysis Results?
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