A course offered at the University of Wisconsin has long been connecting seemingly unrelated fields — the sciences and arts — into an interdisciplinary education. Physics 109 — Physics in the Arts — ...

With an applied physics: optics degree, you’ll gain specialized expertise in optics, preparing you for diverse career opportunities in technology, research, and academia. Become who you’re meant to be ...

Quantum optics is a branch of physics that studies the behavior of light and its interactions with matter at the quantum level. It explores phenomena that arise from the quantum nature of light and ...

The Wordle word of the day on December 25 was prism, a word that feels almost unfairly elegant for something so relentlessly honest. A prism exists to intervene between appearance and understanding, ...

Photonics and optics — the fields of light — are like the colors of the rainbow. There are measurable differences, but no one draws a heavy black line between them. Through studying the behavior and ...

Optics meets 2D materials: a simple probe light beam exiting an optical moiré lattice can be chopped up into diffuse streaks or confined into a single bright spot, depending on the twist angle in the ...

Ray Optics often overwhelms Class 12 students due to formulas and sign conventions. An expert board examiner explains why rote learning fails and how visual thinking, ray diagrams, and conceptual ...