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In Islamic Science, we talked a bit about the design of lenses and mirrors. In Lasers, we mention how a perfect lens can turn 1 W into 100 MW/cm2, and we will show a spectrum, which comes from a spectrometer, which originally used a prism and now uses a diffraction grating. These are examples of optics. The way light works as optics transform it is the science of optics, which has produced telescopes, microscopes, lasers, cameras, spy satellites, optical fibers, and Real3D. Not to mention Bose–Einstein condensates in which light travels at the speed of a bicycle.
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Phipps, C. (2016). Optics. In: No Wonder You Wonder!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5_22
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