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optics

branch of physics concerning light
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Summary

optics is a branch of physics[1]. optics draws 11,086 Wikipedia views per month (branch of physics category, ranking #14 of 105).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: field of work[3], economic sector[4]
  • Subclass of: natural science[5]
  • Part of: physics[6]
  • Commons category: Optics[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Optics[8]
  • Commons gallery: Optics[9]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://physics.stackexchange.com/tags/optics[14]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C16940[15]
  • Different from: optometry[16]
  • History of topic: history of optics[17]
  • Is the study of: light[18], optical phenomenon[19]
  • Practiced by: optician[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]

Why It Matters

optics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] optics is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Alfred Kastler Arthur Ashkin atmospheric optics Augustin-Jean Fresnel Benjamin Thompson Carl Friedrich Gauss Carl Zeiss Carl Zeiss AG Centre Français de la Couleur Cornelis Drebbel David H. Foster David J. Wineland Donna Strickland Edwin H. Land Ernst Abbe Étienne-Louis Malus Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering George Green Gérard Mourou Hans Lippershay Hero of Alexandria Institute for Laser Technology in Medicine and Measurement Technique Isaac Newton Jakov Semenovič Landa Jean-Claude Simon Johannes Kepler John Dollond Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Léon Foucault Leonhard Euler

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → ARC Standard Raster Product
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  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1Voen4
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  3. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 4577
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 4577, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286704|optics (#107286704)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical"
  4. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006473-optika
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0006473-optika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C16940
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 10993, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  6. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Topic's main category → Category:Optics
    Is the study of → light, optical phenomenon
    Instance of → branch of physics, field of work, economic sector
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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