Usually means: Study of light as waves.
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  1. physical optics: Merriam-Webster
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  4. Physical Optics, Physical optics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Physical Optics: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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▸ noun:  In physics, physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.


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