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spinoptics

spinoptics noun: the optics of elliptically-polarized light.

Noun

spinoptics (uncountable)

  1. The optics of elliptically-polarized light
    • The topics covered range from the basics of the thermodynamics of light emission and absorption, to applications in solar-thermal energy generation, thermophotovoltaics, optical refrigeration, personalized cooling technologies, development of coherent incandescent light sources, and spinoptics..2016, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jonathan K. Tong, Wei-Chun Hsu, Bolin Liao, Yi Huang, Vazrik Chiloyan, Gang Chen, “Heat meets light on the nanoscale”, in arXiv

Origin of spinoptics

From spin + optics.

Questions about spinoptics

What does spinoptics mean?
Spinoptics means the optics of elliptically-polarized light.
What part of speech is spinoptics?
Spinoptics is a noun.

Words near spinoptics in the dictionary

  1. spinophilin
  2. spinophillin
  3. spinopostzygapophyseal
  4. spinopostzygapophysial
  5. spinoprezygapophyseal
  6. spinoptics
  7. spinor
  8. spinorama
  9. spinoramas
  10. spinoreticular
  11. spinoreticular tract

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