physical optics

physical optics
the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light. Cf. diffraction, interference, quantum optics.
[1825-35]

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