Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic waves can be reflected in time as cleanly as light bounces off a mirror in ...

Figure 1: The WEBTOP Waves module simulating the interference of the waves in a ripple tank caused by two small oscillating plungers at the back end of the tank. The last 20 years has been a ...

The basics of fiber optic cables and bundles and how they can be used to collect and direct light are discussed in ‘An Introduction to a Spectrometer: Fiber Optic Bundles’. This article will discuss ...

Wave Optics Class 12 MCQ Questions: In this chapter, we will be discussing the wave model of light which in 1678, the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens had put forward. The wave model could ...

A new class of optical thin-film materials enables the refractive index to be tuned to extremely low values. E Fred Schubert and colleagues believe that this capability could have important ...

When a spectrometer is being configured for a given experiment, one of the commonly overlooked considerations is in selecting the best fiber optic cable. While there are many different factors to ...