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edit- 120° parhelion
- 1s Slater-type function
- 22° halo
- 46° halo
- 4Pi STED microscopy
- 4Pi microscope
- ABINIT
- ACS Nano
- AILU
- AM1*
- AMBER
- AN/PVS-7
- ARC-ECRIS
- ARROW waveguide
- Abbe number
- Abbe prism
- Abbe sine condition
- Aberration of light
- Above threshold ionization
- Abraham–Lorentz force
- Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
- Absorption band
- Absorption edge
- Absorption spectroscopy
- Abundance of the chemical elements
- Accelerator mass spectrometry
- Acoustic microscopy
- Acoustic paramagnetic resonance
- Acousto-optic modulator
- Acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter
- Acousto-optics
- Actinic light
- Actinism
- Actinometer
- Active cavity radiometer
- Active laser medium
- Adaptive optics
- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
- Aerosol
- Afocal system
- Afterglow
- Airglow
- Airy beam
- Airy disk
- Albada finder
- Albedo
- Alexander's band
- All gas-phase iodine laser
- All-silica fiber
- Alpenglow
- Alpha particle X-ray spectrometer
- Alpha-particle spectroscopy
- Amagat
- Ames trapezoid
- Amount of substance
- Amplified spontaneous emission
- Amsterdam Density Functional
- Anastigmat
- Andersen thermostat
- Anderson's rule
- Anechoic chamber
- Angle of incidence
- Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
- Angstrom exponent
- Angular momentum coupling
- Angular momentum of light
- Angular spectrum method
- Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
- Annular dark-field imaging
- Anode ray
- Anomalous Diffraction Theory
- Anomalous diffusion
- Anthelion
- Anti-reflective coating
- Anti-scratch coating
- Anticrepuscular rays
- Antihydrogen
- Antiprotonic helium
- Aperture
- Applied Optics
- Applied Physics B
- Applied Spectroscopy (journal)
- Applied Spectroscopy Reviews
- Applied spectroscopy
- Aquascope
- Arago spot
- Argon fluoride laser
- Argus laser
- Arrayed waveguide grating
- Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
- Artificial atom
- Asher A. Friesem
- Associated Legendre polynomials
- Astigmatism
- Astrochemistry
- Astronomical spectroscopy
- Atmospheric diffraction
- Atmospheric duct
- Atmospheric optics
- Atmospheric refraction
- Atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization
- Atom
- Atom interferometer
- Atom laser
- Atom optics
- Atom probe
- Atom vibrations
- Atomic and molecular astrophysics
- Atomic clock
- Atomic coherence
- Atomic diffusion
- Atomic electron transition
- Atomic emission spectroscopy
- Atomic force microscopy
- Atomic form factor
- Atomic fountain
- Atomic line filter
- Atomic mass constant
- Atomic mirror
- Atomic number
- Atomic orbital
- Atomic physics
- Atomic radius
- Atomic ratio
- Atomic theory
- Atomic units
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Atomistix Virtual NanoLab
- Attenuation coefficient
- Aufbau principle
- Auger effect
- Auger electron spectroscopy
- Aureole effect
- Aurora
- Austin Model 1
- Autler–Townes effect
- Autocollimator
- Autocorrelator
- Avogadro constant
- Avogadro's law
- Avoided crossing
- Axicon
- Azimuthal quantum number
- B Integral
- BELLA (laser)
- BKS theory
- Babinet–Soleil compensator
- Back scattering alignment
- Backscatter
- Backward-wave oscillator
- Ball lightning
- Ballistic photon
- Balmer series
- Band bending
- Band diagram
- Band gap
- Band offset
- Bandwidth-limited pulse
- Barometric light
- Bathochromic shift
- Beam diameter
- Beam divergence
- Beam dump
- Beam expander
- Beam homogenizer
- Beam parameter product
- Beam propagation method
- Beam splitter
- Beat (acoustics)
- Beer–Lambert law
- Belt of Venus
- Berendsen thermostat
- Bessel beam
- Bezold effect
- Bhangmeter
- Bi-hemispherical reflectance
- Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
- Bidirectional scattering distribution function
- BigDFT
- Binding energy
- Binoviewer
- Bioceramic
- Biophoton
- Biophotonics
- Bipolaron
- Birefringence
- Bishop's Ring
- Black body
- Black light
- Black-body radiation
- Blazed grating
- Bloch wave – MoM method
- Blue laser
- Bohm diffusion
- Bohr magneton
- Bohr model
- Bohr radius
- Bolometer
- Boltzmann-Matano analysis
- Bond albedo
- Bond softening
- Bonner sphere
- Book of Optics
- Born–Huang approximation
- Born–Oppenheimer approximation
- Boson
- Bottlinger's ring
- Bragg plane
- Bragg's law
- Breit–Wheeler process
- Bremsstrahlung
- Brewster angle microscope
- Brewster's angle
- Brightness
- Bril (unit)
- Brillouin Spectroscopy
- Brillouin scattering
- Brillouin's theorem
- Broad iron K line
- Brocken spectre
- Buffer (optical fiber)
- CASTEP
- CHARMM
- CIDNP
- CLAS detector
- CLD chromophore
- CNDO/2
- CONQUEST
- Calutron
- Canadian Penning Trap Mass Spectrometer
- Candela per square metre
- Candoluminescence
- Carbon dioxide laser
- Cardinal point (optics)
- Car–Parrinello method
- Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics
- Catadioptric sensor
- Catastrophic optical damage
- Cathodoluminescence
- Cathodoluminescence microscope
- Catoptrics
- Cauchy's equation
- Caustic (optics)
- Cavity opto-mechanics
- Cell lists
- Celor lens
- Central field approximation
- Chaos in optical systems
- Charge contrast imaging
- Chemical affinity
- Chemical force microscopy
- Chemical ionization
- Chemical laser
- Chemical oxygen iodine laser
- Chemical physics
- Chemical potential
- Chemical shift
- Chemical thermodynamics
- Chemiluminescence
- Cherenkov radiation
- Chinese Optics Letters
- Chip-scale atomic clock
- Chirped pulse amplification
- Chromatic aberration
- Chromonic
- Circular dichroism
- Circular polarization
- Circumhorizontal arc
- Circumscribed halo
- Circumzenithal arc
- Cladding (fiber optics)
- Cladding mode
- Clarity meter
- Classical electron radius
- Cleave (fiber)
- Cloud iridescence
- Clover (detector)
- Codes for electromagnetic scattering by cylinders
- Codes for electromagnetic scattering by spheres
- Coefficient of utilization
- Coffee ring effect
- Coherence length
- Coherence theory
- Coherence time
- Coherent addition
- Coherent backscattering
- Coherent diffraction imaging
- Coherent perfect absorber
- Coherent spectroscopy
- Cohesion (chemistry)
- Coincidence counting (physics)
- Cold vapour atomic fluorescence spectroscopy
- Colligative properties
- Collimated light
- Collimator
- Collision-induced absorption and emission
- Collision-induced dissociation
- Colorimeter (chemistry)
- Coma (optics)
- Combustion, Explosion, and Shock Waves
- Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
- Complex beam parameter
- Compton scattering
- Compton wavelength
- Computational electromagnetics
- Condenser (optics)
- Conduction band
- Conductivity (electrolytic)
- Configuration state function
- Confocal microscopy
- Conjugate focal plane
- Conoscopy
- Contact angle
- Contact image sensor
- Continuous wave
- Contrast transfer function
- Convection–diffusion equation
- Conventional transmission electron microscope
- Coordination geometry
- Copper vapor laser
- Copyscope
- Core (optical fiber)
- Core electron
- Corona
- Corona (optical phenomenon)
- Coronal radiative losses
- Coster–Kronig transition
- Cotton effect
- Cotton–Mouton effect
- Coulomb explosion
- Coulomb operator
- Coulson–Fischer theory
- Counter-scanning
- Coupled cluster
- Coupling loss
- Coupling parameter
- Creeping wave
- Crepuscular rays
- Critical illumination
- Crookes radiometer
- Cross-phase modulation
- Cross-polarized wave generation
- Crystal Growth & Design
- Crystal momentum
- Crystal monochromator
- Crystal optics
- Crystal oven
- Crystallographic database
- Crystalloluminescence
- Cubic harmonic
- Cyclops laser
- Cyclotron radiation
- Cyclotron turnover
- Cylindrical lens
- DLVO theory
- Dalton's law
- Daly detector
- Dark state
- Dasar
- Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
- Dawes' limit
- Daylight
- Daylight factor
- Deep-level transient spectroscopy
- Defining equation (physical chemistry)
- Defining equation (physics)
- Defocus aberration
- Deformable mirror
- Degree of coherence
- Degree of ionization
- Degree of polarization
- Dehydron
- Delay line interferometer
- Delocalized electron
- Delta prism
- Density functional theory
- Density of states
- Dephasing
- Depolarization ratio
- Depolarizer (optics)
- Depth of field
- Depth of focus
- Desorption
- Dewbow
- Dexter electron transfer
- Dextrorotation and levorotation
- Di-positronium
- Diabatic
- Dialysis tubing
- Diamond anvil cell
- Diamond dust
- Diaphragm (optics)
- Diatomic carbon
- Dichroic filter
- Dichroism
- Dichromatic reflectance model
- Dichromatism
- Dielectric mirror
- Dielectric spectroscopy
- Dielectric wireless receiver
- Diffraction
- Diffraction grating
- Diffraction-limited system
- Diffuse reflection
- Diffuse sky radiation
- Diffuser (optics)
- Diffusing-wave spectroscopy
- Diffusion
- Diffusion equation
- Diffuson
- Digital holographic microscopy
- Diode-pumped solid-state laser
- Dioptric correction
- Dioptrics
- Dipleidoscope
- Direct and indirect band gaps
- Direct quantum chemistry
- Directed-energy weapon
- Directional-hemispherical reflectance
- Discrete dipole approximation
- Discrete dipole approximation codes
- Discrete spectrum (physics)
- Disk laser
- Dispersion (optics)
- Dispersion-shifted fiber
- Dispersive adhesion
- Dispersive prism
- Displacement operator
- Distortion (optics)
- Distributed Bragg reflector
- Distributed Bragg reflector laser
- Distributed acoustic sensing
- Distributed feedback laser
- Distribution of lightning
- Domain wall (optics)
- Doppler cooling
- Double ionization
- Double-Blind FROG
- Double-exchange mechanism
- Doublet (lens)
- Doublet state
- Doubly ionized oxygen
- Driven guard
- Dual-polarization interferometry
- Duoplasmatron
- Dyakonov Surface Waves
- Dye laser
- Dynameter
- Dynamic light scattering
- Dynamic nuclear polarisation
- Dynamic speckle
- EMCD
- EXCITING
- Earth's shadow
- Ecton (physics)
- Eddy diffusion
- Effective atomic number
- Effective diffusion coefficient
- Effective field theory
- Effective medium approximations
- Effective temperature
- Effusion
- Einstein coefficients
- Einzel lens
- Electric eye
- Electric field gradient
- Electrical mobility
- Electro-absorption modulator
- Electro-gyration
- Electro-optic effect
- Electro-optic modulator
- Electro-optics
- Electrochemiluminescence
- Electrochromism
- Electrodeionization
- Electrolaser
- Electroluminescence
- Electroluminescent display
- Electromagnetic absorption by water
- Electromagnetic compatibility
- Electromagnetic environment
- Electromagnetic interference control
- Electromagnetic pulse
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Electromagnetic reverberation chamber
- Electromagnetic shielding
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Electromagnetic wave equation
- Electromagnetically induced transparency
- Electron
- Electron affinity
- Electron backscatter diffraction
- Electron beam ion trap
- Electron bubble
- Electron configuration
- Electron configurations of the elements (data page)
- Electron cyclotron resonance
- Electron degeneracy pressure
- Electron density
- Electron diffraction
- Electron excitation
- Electron hole
- Electron ionization
- Electron liquid
- Electron magnetic dipole moment
- Electron microprobe
- Electron microscope
- Electron multiplier
- Electron paramagnetic resonance
- Electron precipitation
- Electron rest mass
- Electron scattering
- Electron shell
- Electron spectrometer
- Electron tomography
- Electron wake
- Electron-capture dissociation
- Electron-longitudinal acoustic phonon interaction
- Electron-refractive effect
- Electron-transfer dissociation
- Electronic band structure
- Electronic correlation
- Electronic density
- Electronic imager
- Electronic speckle pattern interferometry
- Electrospray ionization
- Electrostatic lens
- Elektronika (journal)
- Ellipsometry
- Elliptical polarization
- Emission spectrum
- Emission-aware programming
- Emissivity
- Empty lattice approximation
- Encircled energy
- Energy drift
- Energy level
- Energy transfer upconversion
- Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy
- Englert–Greenberger duality relation
- Entrance pupil
- Environmental scanning electron microscope
- Equilibrium mode distribution
- Equivalence of direct radiation
- Er:YAG laser
- Erect image
- Etendue
- European x-ray free electron laser
- Evanescent wave
- Evaporation suppressing monolayers
- Evershed effect
- Exchange force
- Exchange interaction
- Exchange operator
- Excimer lamp
- Excimer laser
- Exit pupil
- Exoelectron emission
- Exotic atom
- Explosive boiling or phase explosion
- Extended Hückel method
- Extinction cross
- Extreme Light Infrastructure
- F-number
- FLEX (satellite)
- Fabrication and testing of optical components
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- False sunrise
- False sunset
- Far-infrared laser
- Faraday cup
- Faraday effect
- Fast atom bombardment
- Fata Morgana (mirage)
- Femtosecond pulse shaping
- Fermat's principle
- Fermi level
- Fermi liquid theory
- Fermi resonance
- Ferrofluid mirror
- Feshbach resonance
- Fiber Bragg grating
- Fiber disk laser
- Fiber laser
- Fibre optic gyroscope
- Fick's laws of diffusion
- Field emission microscopy
- Field emission probes
- Field lens
- Figure-8 laser
- Figuring
- Filament propagation
- Fine structure
- Finite-difference time-domain method
- Fixed orbit
- Fizeau interferometer
- Flack parameter
- Flat-field correction
- Flick (physics)
- Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry
- Fluorescence
- Fluorescence intermittency
- Fluorescence spectroscopy
- Flying ice cube
- Focal cloud
- Focal length
- Fock matrix
- Fock state
- Focus (optics)
- Fog bow
- Folded optics
- Foot-lambert
- Forbidden mechanism
- Force field (chemistry)
- Forward scatter
- Forward scattering alignment
- Four-wave mixing
- Fourier optics
- Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance
- Fractional anisotropy
- Franck–Condon principle
- Fraser spiral illusion
- Fraunhofer diffraction
- Fraunhofer distance
- Fraunhofer lines
- Free electron model
- Free spectral range
- Free streaming
- Free-electron laser
- Free-fall atomic model
- Frequency comb
- Frequency domain sensor
- Frequency spectrum
- Frequency-resolved optical gating
- Fresnel (frequency)
- Fresnel diffraction
- Fresnel equations
- Fresnel integral
- Fresnel number
- Fresnel rhomb
- Fresnel zone
- Fresnel–Arago laws
- Fringe shift
- Frontier molecular orbital theory
- Fuel mass fraction
- Fugacity
- Förster coupling
- G-factor (physics)
- GEKKO XII
- GRENOUILLE
- GROMACS
- GROMOS
- GSD microscopy
- GTEM cell
- Gain (laser)
- Gain-switching
- Galvanoluminescence
- Gamma ray
- Gamma spectroscopy
- Gans theory
- Gas constant
- Gas dynamic laser
- Gas laser
- Gas-discharge lamp
- Gas-phase ion chemistry
- Gaseous detection device
- Gaunt factor
- Gauss lens
- Gaussian beam
- Gaussian broadening
- Gaussian optics
- Gaussian orbital
- Gaussian quantum Monte Carlo
- Gel
- General Antiparticle Spectrometer
- Generalized valence bond
- Geometrical optics
- Geonium atom
- George Hockham
- Giant resonance
- Gibbs–Donnan effect
- Gires–Tournois etalon
- Gladstone–Dale relation
- Glan–Foucault prism
- Glan–Taylor prism
- Glan–Thompson prism
- Glauber–Sudarshan P representation
- Globe effect
- Glory (optical phenomenon)
- Gloss (optics)
- Glossmeter
- Glow discharge
- Golden hour (photography)
- Goniometer
- Goniophotometer
- Goniophotometry
- Goos–Hänchen effect
- Graded-index fiber
- Gradient-index optics
- Grain boundary diffusion coefficient
- Graviphoton
- Gravitational mirage
- Green flash
- Greninger chart
- Grism
- Group delay and phase delay
- Group delay dispersion
- Group velocity
- Guided-mode resonance
- Gunn diode
- Gyromagnetic ratio
- H-alpha
- Hagen-Rubens relation
- Haidinger fringe
- Halo (optical phenomenon)
- Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics)
- Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect
- Hanle effect
- Hartree–Fock method
- Haze meter
- Heat equation
- Heavy Rydberg system
- Heiligenschein
- Helicon (physics)
- Helium atom
- Helium line ratio
- Helium mass spectrometer
- Helium–neon laser
- Hellmann–Feynman theorem
- Helmholtz reciprocity
- Henry adsorption constant
- Henry's law
- Hess's law
- Heterojunction bipolar transistor
- HiPER
- High frequency approximation
- High harmonic generation
- High-power field
- High-refractive-index polymer
- High-resolution transmission electron microscopy
- Highly charged ion
- History of optics
- History of spectroscopy
- Hofmeister series
- Hohlraum
- Hollow-cathode lamp
- Holographic interferometry
- Holographic optical element
- Holographic principle
- Holographic sensor
- Holography
- Holstein–Herring method
- Homodyne detection
- Homogeneous broadening
- Hooke's atom
- Hubbard model
- Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity
- Hund's rules
- Husimi Q representation
- Huygens–Fresnel principle
- Hybrid functional
- Hybrid image
- Hybrid silicon laser
- Hydrogen anion
- Hydrogen atom
- Hydrogen fluoride laser
- Hydrogen ion
- Hydrogen line
- Hydrogen maser
- Hydrogen spectral series
- Hydrogen-like atom
- Hydrosilylation
- Hydroxyl ion absorption
- Hyperfine structure
- Hyperpolarizability
- Hyperradiant Fresnel lens
- Hyperspectral imaging
- Hypsochromic shift
- Hysteresivity
- Hückel method
- IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- INDO
- ISKRA lasers
- ISO 31-8
- ISOLTRAP
- Ice blink
- Ice crystals
- Identical particles
- Illuminance
- Imaging spectrometer
- Imbert–Fedorov effect
- Incandescence
- Incoherent scatter
- Independent electron approximation
- Index of optics articles
- Index-matching material
- Inductive coupling
- Inductively coupled plasma
- Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
- Inelastic mean free path
- Inert pair effect
- Infinity correction
- Infinity focus
- Infralateral arc
- Infrared
- Infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer
- Infrared cut-off filter
- Infrared multiphoton dissociation
- Infrared window
- Inglis–Teller equation
- Injection seeder
- Integrating sphere
- Intensity (physics)
- Interband cascade laser
- Interference (wave propagation)
- Interference filter
- Interferometric gravitational wave detector
- Interferometry
- Intermolecular force
- International Centre for Diffraction Data
- International Commission for Optics
- Intramodal dispersion
- Intrinsic hyperpolarizability
- Inverse Faraday effect
- Inverse Raman effect
- Inverse photoemission spectroscopy
- Inverse problem in optics
- Inverse scattering problem
- Inverted microscope
- Ion
- Ion beam
- Ion cyclotron resonance
- Ion gun
- Ion laser
- Ion source
- Ion thruster
- Ion-mobility spectrometry
- Ionic potential
- Ionization
- Ionization energy
- Ionized-air glow
- Irisation
- Irradiance
- Irradiation illusion
- Isomeric shift
- Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
- Isotopic shift
- Jablonski diagram
- Jamin interferometer
- Janus laser
- Jaynes–Cummings model
- Jaynes–Cummings–Hubbard model
- Jellium
- Jones calculus
- Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
- Journal of Biomedical Optics
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Journal of Electronic Imaging
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- Journal of Luminescence
- Journal of Optics (IOP Publishing)
- Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry
- Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications
- Journal of the Optical Society of America
- K-edge
- Kaonic hydrogen
- Kaonium
- Kapitsa–Dirac effect
- Kautsky effect
- Kelvin probe force microscope
- Kern arc
- Kerr cell shutter
- Kerr effect
- Kerr-lens modelocking
- Kinetic inductance detector
- Kinetic scheme
- Kirchhoff integral theorem
- Kirchhoff's diffraction formula
- Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation
- Kite experiment
- Knapp's rule
- Knight shift
- Knudsen diffusion
- Kohn–Sham equations
- Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker approximation
- Kramers theorem
- Kramers' law
- Kratos MS 50
- Kreft's dichromaticity index
- Krypton fluoride laser
- Kubo Gap
- Kugelblitz (astrophysics)
- Kuzyk quantum gap
- K·p perturbation theory
- LAGEOS
- LAMMPS
- LBLRTM
- LIGO
- LORROS
- LULI2000
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics
- Lambert (unit)
- Lambert's cosine law
- Lambertian reflectance
- Lamb–Mössbauer factor
- Landé g-factor
- Landé interval rule
- Larmor formula
- Larmor precession
- Laser
- Laser Doppler velocimetry
- Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
- Laser Mégajoule
- Laser Physics (journal)
- Laser Physics Letters
- Laser ablation
- Laser accelerometer
- Laser acronyms
- Laser beam profiler
- Laser construction
- Laser cooling
- Laser detuning
- Laser diode
- Laser diode rate equations
- Laser engraving
- Laser integration line
- Laser power scaling
- Laser printing of single nanoparticles
- Laser pumping
- Laser rangefinder
- Laser science
- Laser snow
- Laser ultrasonics
- Laser-induced fluorescence
- Laser-induced incandescence
- Lasing threshold
- Lattice density functional theory
- Lattice diffusion coefficient
- LeRoy radius
- Leader (spark)
- Leaky mode
- Least distance of distinct vision
- Lennard-Jones potential
- Lens (optics)
- Lens sag
- Lenslet
- Leslie cube
- Lichtenberg figure
- Lidar
- Liesegang rings
- Ligand K-edge
- Light
- Light beam
- Light cone
- Light field
- Light pillar
- Light scattering
- Light scattering by particles
- Light-year
- Lightning
- Lilienfeld radiation
- Liljequist parhelion
- Line source
- Linear combination of atomic orbitals
- Linear optical quantum computing
- Linear polarization
- Liquid hydrogen
- Liquid-crystal laser
- List of electromagnetism equations
- List of equations in fluid mechanics
- List of equations in gravitation
- List of equations in nuclear and particle physics
- List of equations in quantum mechanics
- List of equations in wave theory
- List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
- List of laser applications
- List of laser articles
- List of laser types
- List of lens designs
- List of light sources
- List of photonics equations
- List of quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software
- List of refractive indices
- List of types of interferometers
- Lithium atom
- Lithium triborate
- Live MOS
- Liénard–Wiechert potential
- Lloyd's mirror
- Local density of states
- Local-density approximation
- Localized surface plasmon
- Long path laser
- Long-period fiber grating
- Looming and similar refraction phenomena
- Loschmidt constant
- Low-energy electron diffraction
- Lower tangent arc
- Lucas cell
- Lumen (unit)
- Luminance
- Luminescence
- Luminophore
- Luminosity function
- Luminous efficacy
- Luminous energy
- Luminous flux
- Luminous intensity
- Lummer–Gehrcke interferometer
- Lux
- Lyc photon
- Lyman limit
- Lyman series
- Lyman-alpha line
- Lyman–Werner photons
- Lyoluminescence
- Lyot filter
- Lyot stop
- MINDO
- MIRACL
- MNDO
- MODTRAN
- Mach–Zehnder interferometer
- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
- Macroscopic quantum phenomena
- Madelung constant
- Magic angle
- Magnetic circular dichroism
- Magnetic evaporative cooling
- Magnetic isotope effect
- Magnetic lens
- Magnetic photon
- Magnetic quantum number
- Magnetic trap (atoms)
- Magnetization reversal by circularly polarized light
- Magneto-optic Kerr effect
- Magneto-optic effect
- Magneto-optical trap
- Mandrel wrapping
- Manipulation of atoms by optical field
- Martin–Puplett interferometer
- Maser
- Mass chromatogram
- Mass spectrometry
- Mass spectrum
- Mass-to-charge ratio
- Material dispersion coefficient
- Material scattering
- Mathematical descriptions of opacity
- Matrix isolation
- Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
- Max Born Award
- Maximum density
- Maxwell–Stefan diffusion
- Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars polarization
- McCumber relation
- Mean free path
- Mechanical splice
- Mechanism of sonoluminescence
- Mechanoluminescence
- Megalethoscope
- Membrane mirror
- Membrane-introduction mass spectrometry
- Mercury laser
- Metadynamics
- Metal-induced gap states
- Metallic hydrogen
- Metamaterial
- Metamaterial cloaking
- Michelson interferometer
- Michelson stellar interferometer
- Micro SPIDER
- Microbolometer
- Microchannel plate detector
- Microphotonics
- Microscope
- Microscopic reversibility
- Microscopic theory
- Microscopy Society of America
- Microstructured optical fiber
- Microwave
- Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
- Microwave radiometer
- Microwave transmission
- Mie scattering
- Minimum deviation
- Mir (lens)
- Mirage
- Mirage of astronomical objects
- Mirau interferometer
- Mirror mount
- Mode coupling
- Mode volume
- Mode-locking
- Modulational instability
- Moire deflectometry
- Moiré pattern
- Molar mass constant
- Molecular Hamiltonian
- Molecular Physics (journal)
- Molecular beam
- Molecular diffusion
- Molecular dynamics
- Molecular machine
- Molecular mass
- Molecular mechanics
- Molecular motor
- Molecular orbital
- Molecular physics
- Molecular tagging velocimetry
- Molecular term symbol
- Molecular vibration
- Molecule
- Momentum diffusion
- Momentum transfer
- Monochromator
- Monocular
- Monoisotopic mass
- Monolayer
- Moon dog
- Moonbow
- Moonlight
- Morphology-dependent resonance
- Morse potential
- Moseley's law
- Motional narrowing
- Mueller calculus
- Muffin-tin approximation
- Multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree
- Multi-configurational self-consistent field
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion
- Multiangle light scattering
- Multipath interference
- Multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan
- Multiphoton lithography
- Multiple isomorphous replacement
- Multiple-prism dispersion theory
- Multiple-prism grating laser oscillator
- Multireference configuration interaction
- Multislice
- Muonium
- Museum of Optical Technologies
- Mössbauer spectroscopy
- NAMD
- NDDO
- NIST-F1
- Nanocharm
- Nanofluidic circuitry
- Nanofluidics
- Nanoknife
- Nanolaser
- Nanophotonics
- National Ignition Facility
- Nature Photonics
- Nd:YAG laser
- Near and far field
- Nearly free electron model
- Negative luminescence
- Negative refraction
- Negative temperature
- Negative thermal expansion
- Nematicon
- Neodymium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride
- Nernst–Planck equation
- Net radiometer
- Neutral density filter
- Neutrino theory of light
- Neutron backscattering
- Neutron diffraction
- Neutron interferometer
- Newton's rings
- Nichols radiometer
- Nicol prism
- Nike laser
- Nitrogen laser
- Nitrogen-vacancy center
- Noctilucent cloud
- Noise-equivalent flux density
- Nomarski prism
- Non-achromatic objective
- Non-contact atomic force microscopy
- Non-ionizing radiation
- Non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber
- Nonclassical light
- Nonimaging optics
- Nonlinear X-wave
- Nonlinear optics
- Nonlinear photonic crystal
- Normal mode
- Nova (laser)
- Novaya Zemlya effect
- Novette laser
- Nuclear Overhauser effect
- Nuclear electromagnetic pulse
- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Nuclear microscopy
- Nuclear pumped laser
- Nuclear resonance fluorescence
- Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy
- Null corrector
- Nuller
- Numerical solution of the convection–diffusion equation
- Odd molecule
- Off-axis optical system
- Okorokov effect
- On-Line Isotope Mass Separator
- Opacity (optics)
- Opalescence
- Open shell
- Operando spectroscopy
- Optic axis of a crystal
- Optic crystals
- Optical Engineering (journal)
- Optical Fiber Technology
- Optical Review
- Optical Society
- Optical Society of Japan
- Optical aberration
- Optical amplifier
- Optical autocorrelation
- Optical axis
- Optical axis grating
- Optical brightener
- Optical cavity
- Optical circulator
- Optical coating
- Optical coherence tomography
- Optical conductivity
- Optical contact bonding
- Optical correlator
- Optical cross section
- Optical decay
- Optical depth
- Optical depth (astrophysics)
- Optical downconverter
- Optical equivalence theorem
- Optical feedback
- Optical field
- Optical flat
- Optical format
- Optical frequency multiplier
- Optical instrument
- Optical lattice
- Optical lens design
- Optical medium
- Optical microsphere
- Optical modulator
- Optical modulators using semiconductor nano-structures
- Optical neural network
- Optical parametric amplifier
- Optical parametric oscillator
- Optical path
- Optical path length
- Optical phase conjugation
- Optical physics
- Optical power
- Optical pumping
- Optical reader
- Optical rectification
- Optical ring resonators
- Optical rotatory dispersion
- Optical sectioning
- Optical sine theorem
- Optical sorting
- Optical stretcher
- Optical theorem
- Optical train
- Optical tweezers
- Optical window
- Opticks
- Optics
- Optics Classification and Indexing Scheme
- Optics Communications
- Optics Express
- Optics Letters
- Optics and Photonics News
- Optics and Spectroscopy
- Opticution
- Optik (journal)
- Optofluidics
- Optomechanics
- Orbital angular momentum multiplexing
- Orbital angular momentum of light
- Orbital magnetization
- Orbital-free density functional theory
- Orders of magnitude (luminous flux)
- Organic light-emitting transistor
- Organic photorefractive materials
- Osmosis
- Ostwald ripening
- Overtone band
- Oxygen permeability
- PHOSFOS
- PKA (irradiation)
- PM3 (chemistry)
- PSF Lab
- PWscf
- Paleolightning
- Parametric process (optics)
- Paraxial approximation
- Parfocal lens
- Parhelic circle
- Pariser–Parr–Pople method
- Parry arc
- Partial pressure
- Particle-induced X-ray emission
- Path integral Monte Carlo
- Path integral molecular dynamics
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Pencil (optics)
- Penning trap
- Pentamirror
- Pentaprism
- Peregrine soliton
- Perfect mirror
- Periodic poling
- Peter Debye Award
- Petzval field curvature
- Pfeiffer Effect
- Phase contrast microscopy
- Phase switch
- Phase telescope
- Phase-coherent holography
- Phase-contrast X-ray imaging
- Phase-contrast imaging
- Phased-array optics
- Phonon drag
- Phosphor
- Phosphorescence
- Phosphoroscope
- Phot
- Photoactivated localization microscopy
- Photobleaching
- Photoconductive atomic force microscopy
- Photoconductivity
- Photodetection
- Photoelastic modulator
- Photoelasticity
- Photoelectron photoion coincidence spectroscopy
- Photoemission spectroscopy
- Photoexcitation
- Photoluminescence
- Photometer
- Photometry (optics)
- Photomixing
- Photomultiplier
- Photon
- Photon counting
- Photon diffusion
- Photon polarization
- Photonic crystal
- Photonic integrated circuit
- Photonic metamaterial
- Photonic molecule
- Photonic-crystal fiber
- Photonics
- Photonics Society of Poland
- Photophoresis
- Photorefractive effect
- Photothermal optical microscopy
- Photothermal spectroscopy
- Photo–Dember effect
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Physical Review A
- Physical optics
- Physisorption
- Piezoluminescence
- Pinhole (optics)
- Piobert's law
- Pionium
- Piston (optics)
- Plane mirror
- Plane of incidence
- Plasma afterglow
- Plasma diffusion
- Plasmat lens
- Plasmonic lens
- Plasmonic metamaterials
- Plastic-clad silica fiber
- Pockels effect
- Point spread function
- Poisson–Boltzmann equation
- Polarimetry
- Polariton laser
- Polarizability
- Polarization (waves)
- Polarization in astronomy
- Polarization mode dispersion
- Polarization rotator
- Polarization scrambling
- Polarization spectroscopy
- Polarization-division multiplexing
- Polarizer
- Polaroid (polarizer)
- Polaron
- Polychromatic
- Polychromator
- Ponderomotive energy
- Population inversion
- Positronium
- Positronium hydride
- Post-Hartree–Fock
- Potassium titanyl phosphate
- Potential energy surface
- Powder diffraction
- Power-law index profile
- Poynting vector
- Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization
- Principal quantum number
- Prism
- Prism compressor
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Progress in Optics
- Propagation constant
- Proton
- Proton magnetic moment
- Protonium
- Pseudopotential
- Pulsed EPR
- Pulsed laser deposition
- Purcell effect
- Pyrgeometer
- Pyrometer
- Q factor
- Q-Spoil
- Q-switching
- QED vacuum
- QMC@Home
- QMR effect
- Quadrupole mass analyzer
- Quantitative phase-contrast microscopy
- Quantum Monte Carlo
- Quantum cascade laser
- Quantum defect
- Quantum dot laser
- Quantum efficiency
- Quantum noise
- Quantum optics
- Quantum reflection
- Quantum solvent
- Quantum stochastic calculus
- Quantum well infrared photodetector
- Quantum well laser
- Quantum yield
- Quantum-mechanical explanation of intermolecular interactions
- Quasi-phase-matching
- Quasiatom
- Quasioptics
- Quasiprobability distribution
- Quenching (fluorescence)
- RESOLFT
- RRKM theory
- Rabi cycle
- Rabi frequency
- Rabi problem
- Radial distribution function
- Radial polarization
- Radiance
- Radiant energy
- Radiant flux
- Radiant intensity
- Radiation effects on optical fibers
- Radiative Auger effect
- Radiative transfer
- Radio frequency
- Radio spectrum pollution
- Radio wave
- Radio window
- Radioluminescence
- Radiometer
- Radiometry
- Radiosity (heat transfer)
- Radius of curvature (optics)
- Rainbow
- Rainbow hologram
- Raman laser
- Raman microscope
- Raman scattering
- Ramsey interferometry
- Random laser
- Raoult's law
- Ray (optics)
- Ray tracing (physics)
- Ray transfer matrix analysis
- Rayleigh distance
- Rayleigh scattering
- Rayleigh sky model
- Reaction coordinate
- Reciprocal lattice
- Recoil temperature
- Recurrence tracking microscope
- Reference beam
- Reference surface
- Reflectin
- Reflection (physics)
- Reflection coefficient
- Reflection high-energy electron diffraction
- Reflectivity
- Reflectometric interference spectroscopy
- Refraction
- Refractive index
- Refractive index and extinction coefficient of thin film materials
- Refractive index contrast
- Regenerative amplification
- Rehbinder effect
- Relative intensity noise
- Relativistic heat conduction
- Relativistic quantum chemistry
- Relativistic quantum mechanics
- Remission (spectroscopy)
- Reptation Monte Carlo
- Residual gas analyzer
- Resolved Sideband Cooling
- Resolved sideband cooling
- Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
- Restricted open-shell Hartree–Fock
- Reststrahlen effect
- Retarded time
- Reverse diffusion
- Reversible reference system propagation algorithm
- Ridged mirror
- Rietveld refinement
- Rigid rotor
- Ring laser
- Ring laser gyroscope
- Ritz method
- Rochon prism
- Roothaan equations
- Rossiter–McLaughlin effect
- Rotating furnace
- Rotating wave approximation
- Rotational spectroscopy
- Rotational temperature
- Rotational transition
- Rotational–vibrational spectroscopy
- Ruby laser
- Rudolf Kingslake
- Runaway breakdown
- Runge–Gross theorem
- Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- Rutherford backscattering spectrometry
- Rydberg atom
- Rydberg constant
- Rydberg formula
- Rydberg molecule
- Rydberg state
- Rydberg–Klein–Rees method
- Rydberg–Ritz combination principle
- Rytov number
- Rømer's determination of the speed of light
- SAM1
- SELFOC Microlens
- SIESTA (computer program)
- SINDO
- SN 1972e
- SPIE
- STED microscopy
- Sagitta (optics)
- Sagnac effect
- Saha ionization equation
- Sarfus
- Satellite laser ranging
- Saturable absorption
- Saturated absorption spectroscopy
- Scanning SQUID microscope
- Scanning acoustic microscope
- Scanning transmission electron microscopy
- Scanning tunneling microscope
- Scattering
- Scattering cross-section
- Scattering theory
- Schaefer–Bergmann diffraction
- Scherrer equation
- Schlieren
- Schlieren imaging
- Schlieren photography
- Schmidt corrector plate
- Schumann resonances
- Schwinger limit
- Scintillation (physics)
- Scintillation counter
- Second-harmonic generation
- Secondary electrons
- Secondary emission
- Secondary ion mass spectrometry
- Secondary mirror
- Sector instrument
- Selected area diffraction
- Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry
- Selection rule
- Selective adsorption
- Selective surface
- Self-amplified stimulated emission
- Self-diffusion
- Self-focusing
- Self-mixing interferometry
- Self-phase modulation
- Sellmeier equation
- Semi-empirical quantum chemistry method
- Semiclassical physics
- Semiconductor detector
- Semiconductor laser theory
- Semiconductor luminescence equations
- Semiconductor optical gain
- Semiconductor ring laser
- Semipermeable membrane
- Shade (shadow)
- Shadow
- Shadowgraph
- Shape resonance
- Sharp series
- Shielding effect
- Shiva laser
- Shot noise
- Siegbahn notation
- Siemens star
- Signal beam
- Silicon photonics
- Simple lens
- Simulated fluorescence process algorithm
- Single wavelength anomalous dispersion
- Single-scattering albedo
- Singlet fission
- Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation
- Sisyphus cooling
- Sky brightness
- Slater determinant
- Slater integrals
- Slater-type orbital
- Slope efficiency
- Slow light
- Slush hydrogen
- Smart glass
- Smith–Purcell effect
- Snell's law
- Soft X-ray emission spectroscopy
- Sokolov–Ternov effect
- Solar-pumped laser
- Solarization (physics)
- Solid State Communications
- Solid harmonics
- Solid hydrogen
- Solid-state dye lasers
- Solid-state laser
- Solidus (chemistry)
- Soliton (optics)
- Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law
- Sonochemistry
- Sonoluminescence
- Sorption
- Space charge
- Spatial cutoff frequency
- Spatial filter
- Spatially Encoded Arrangement for SPIDER
- Special sensor microwave/imager
- Specific radiative intensity
- Specific weight
- Speckle pattern
- Spectral bands
- Spectral hole burning
- Spectral line
- Spectral line shape
- Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction
- Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
- Spectrograph
- Spectroradiometer
- Spectroscopic notation
- Spectroscopy
- Spectrum
- Specular highlight
- Specular reflection
- Speed of light
- Spherical aberration
- Spherical harmonics
- Spherium
- Spin angular momentum of light
- Spin chemistry
- Spin echo
- Spin engineering
- Spin isomers of hydrogen
- Spin polarization
- Spin probe
- Spin quantum number
- Spin states (d electrons)
- Spin-destruction collision
- Spin-polarized electron energy loss spectroscopy
- Spin–orbit interaction
- Split-ring resonator
- Split-step method
- Spontaneous emission
- Spontaneous parametric down-conversion
- Sputter coating
- Squeeze operator
- Squeezed coherent state
- Standard conditions for temperature and pressure
- Stanhope lens
- Star
- Stark effect
- Stark spectroscopy
- State-universal coupled cluster
- Stationary-wave integrated Fourier transform spectrometry
- Stauroscope
- Sticking coefficient
- Stiction
- Stilb (unit)
- Stimulated emission
- Stokes parameters
- Stokes relations
- Stokes shift
- Strain scanning
- Streak camera
- Streamline diffusion
- Strontium vapor laser
- Stöber process
- Subhelic arc
- Subparhelic circle
- Substitution method
- Subsun
- Sum frequency generation spectroscopy
- Sum-frequency generation
- Sun
- Sun dog
- Sun glitter
- Sun photometer
- Sunglint
- Sunlight
- Sunstone (medieval)
- Super black
- Super-channel
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Superatom
- Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
- Supercontinuum
- Superhydrophobe
- Superlens
- Supernova
- Superprism
- Superradiance
- Superradiant laser
- Superstructure (condensed matter)
- Supralateral arc
- Surface analysis tools
- Surface core level shift
- Surface energy
- Surface forces apparatus
- Surface hopping
- Surface phenomenon
- Surface plasmon polariton
- Surface plasmon resonance
- Surface science
- Surface second harmonic generation
- Surface states
- Surface stress
- Surface tension
- Surface-extended X-ray absorption fine structure
- Surface-tension values
- Swan band
- Sylvanshine
- Symmetry in quantum mechanics
- Sympathetic cooling
- Synchrotron light source
- Synchrotron radiation
- Synopsys Code V
- Sénarmont prism
- T-matrix method
- TAMA 300
- TEA laser
- Talbot cavity
- Talbot effect
- Taylor cone
- Teleidoscope
- Tensiometer (surface tension)
- Terahertz gap
- Terahertz metamaterials
- Terahertz radiation
- Term symbol
- Terminator (solar)
- Theories of cloaking
- Thermal blooming
- Thermal ionization
- Thermal ionization mass spectrometry
- Thermal radiation
- Thermally stimulated current spectroscopy
- Thermionic emission
- Thermoluminescence
- Thin-film interference
- Thin-film optics
- Thomas precession
- Thomas–Fermi model
- Thomson (unit)
- Thomson problem
- Thomson scattering
- Ti-sapphire laser
- Tight binding
- Tilt (optics)
- Time of flight
- Time stretch dispersive Fourier transform
- Time-dependent density functional theory
- Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics
- Timeline of electromagnetism and classical optics
- Tinker (software)
- Tiny ionospheric photometer
- Tired light
- Tolman length
- Tophat beam
- Toric lens
- Toroidal reflector
- Total angular momentum quantum number
- Total external reflection
- Total internal reflection
- Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope
- Total refraction
- Townsend discharge
- Transduction (biophysics)
- Transfer-matrix method (optics)
- Transformation optics
- Transition dipole moment
- Transition edge sensor
- Transmission coefficient
- Transmission electron microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing
- Transmission medium
- Transmissometer
- Transmittance
- Transport length
- Transverse mode
- Transverse wave
- Triboluminescence
- Trident laser
- Trihydrogen cation
- Triple-resonance nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Triplet lens
- Triplet state
- Troland
- Tropospheric scatter
- Tunable laser
- Tunnel ionization
- Twinkling
- Two-color system
- Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Two-electron atom
- Two-photon absorption
- Two-photon circular dichroism
- Two-photon excitation microscopy
- Twyman–Green interferometer
- Tyndall effect
- Ultracold atom
- Ultrafast monochromator
- Ultrafast x-rays
- Ultramicroscope
- Ultrashort pulse
- Ultrasonic force microscopy
- Ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy
- Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography
- Universal force field
- Unrestricted Hartree–Fock
- Upper tangent arc
- Upper-atmospheric lightning
- VNIR
- Vacuum Rabi oscillation
- Vacuum level
- Valence band
- Valence electron
- Vaporization
- Variable speed of light
- Variational Monte Carlo
- Variational method (quantum mechanics)
- Varifocal lens
- Vector model of the atom
- Velocity factor
- Verdet constant
- Vergence (optics)
- Vertex distance
- Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
- Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-laser
- Vertico SMI
- Very-long-baseline interferometry
- Vibrational analysis with scanning probe microscopy
- Vibrational energy relaxation
- Vibronic coupling
- Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package
- Virgo interferometer
- Virtual image
- Visible spectrum
- Visual appearance
- Voigt effect
- Volatility (chemistry)
- Volume (thermodynamics)
- Volume fraction
- Vulcan laser
- Wall-plug efficiency
- Wardenclyffe Tower
- Water content
- Water hole (radio)
- Water sky
- Watson interferometer
- Wave impedance
- Wavefront
- Wavefront curvature sensor
- Wavefront sensor
- Waveguide
- Waveguide (optics)
- Waveplate
- Weakly guiding fiber
- Wedge filter
- Wetting transition
- White light interferometry
- White–Juday warp-field interferometer
- Whole number rule
- Wide-angle X-ray scattering
- Wien approximation
- Wien effect
- Wien filter
- Wien's displacement law
- Winston cone
- Wireless power
- Wiswesser's rule
- Wolf effect
- Wolf summation
- Wollaston landscape lens
- Wollaston prism
- Wolter telescope
- X-ray
- X-ray Raman scattering
- X-ray absorption fine structure
- X-ray crystallography
- X-ray fluorescence
- X-ray laser
- X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
- X-ray microscope
- X-ray optics
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
- X-ray reflectivity
- X-ray spectroscopy
- X-ray standing waves
- XANES
- Yablonovite
- Yb:LuVO4
- Young's interference experiment
- Yttrium lithium fluoride
- Z-scan technique
- ZINDO
- Zeeman effect
- Zeeman slower
- Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
- Zemax
- Zero-dispersion wavelength
- Zero-mode waveguide
- Zero-phonon line and phonon sideband
- Ziff–Gulari–Barshad model
- Zinc sulfide
- Zone axis
- Zone plate