| communications media | The means of interchanging or transmitting and receiving information. Historically the media were written: books, journals, newspapers, and other publications; in the modern age the media include, in addition, radio, television, computers, and information networks. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| satellite communications | Communications using an active or passive satellite to extend the range of radio, television, or other electronic transmission by returning signals to earth from an orbiting satellite. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rectified optics | <microscopy> Microscope lens system correcting the rotation of polarized light that takes place at high-incidence-angle interfaces between the polarizer and analyser. Rectification provides high extinction for polarized-light and Differential Interference Contrast microscopy at high numerical apertures, thus permitting bifringence or phase retardation combined with high in g low phase. (05 Aug 1998) |
| confocal optics | <microscopy> A (microscope) optical system in which the condenser and objective lenses both focus onto one single point in the specimen. Generally, the image of a pinhole source is focused onto a point in the specimen, and that point is focused by the objective lens onto a point detector or through a mask with a pinhole aperture. With confocal optics, the Abbe limit of resolution can be exceeded since only a limited region of the specimen is viewed at any onetime. (05 Aug 1998) |
| optics | That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision. Origin: Cf. F. Optique, L. Optice, Gr. (sc). See Optic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| electron optics | <study> The science that deals with propagation electrons, as light optics deals with that of light and its phenomena. Eye lens (see lens, eye). (05 Aug 1998) |