Milestones related to optics

Nature publishing group has compiled an interesting list of milestones with respect to 'photons' and 'light microscopy'. Below are the links to the same. Each milestone is further explained with an article. Relevant references are also cited in these articles.


Photons - http://www.nature.com/milestones/milephotons/timeline.html


Light microscopy - http://www.nature.com/milestones/milelight/timeline.html



Worth reading !

Femto-photography

Femto-photography - an interesting video and talk by MIT's Ramesh Rashkar

Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

Optics demonstrations

The below link is from MIT open courseware containing excellent demonstrations on various topics that we have discussed in the class.....

LINK

hello PHY421 - Classical and Quantum Optics !

Dear Students,

    Welcome to PHY421 course. This is web location where you can find some interesting stuff related to the course. 

Below are a few links on history of optics

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/index.html

http://www.optics1.com/optics_history.php

http://www.ee.umd.edu/~taylor/optics.htm

enjoy !