IN his Thomas Young Oration of the Physical Society on December 6, Prof. Charles Fabry discussed “Vision in Optical Instruments”. Classical theory gives the resolving power of an optical instrument as ...

The human eye is a simple, but extremely robust, optical instrument. Analysis by sophisticated wavefront-sensing technology and customized ray-tracing has now revealed that the eye is actually an ...

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...