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physical optics
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Physical optics
In
physics
,
physical optics
, or
wave optics
, is the branch of
optics
which studies
interference
,
diffraction
,
polarization
, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of
geometric optics
is not valid. This usage tends not to include effects such as
quantum noise
in
optical communication
, which is studied in the sub-branch of
coherence theory
.
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