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Optics and Photonics

"Optics and Photonics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A specialized field of physics and engineering involved in studying the behavior and properties of light and the technology of analyzing, generating, transmitting, and manipulating ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet range.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Optics and Photonics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Optics and Photonics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003 and 2004 and 2022
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