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How Light Shaped Science: From Fleas to Qubits

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Abstract

Optics is among the oldest branches of science, and yet remains among the most fruitful. It has provided either new phenomena or new technology that underpin many of the major discoveries in physics over the past 400 years. Yet it is only in the past century that its disparate properties have been understood in a unified way, and even now there are new insights into the structure of the natural world emerging from this understanding. And, as is so often the case, new technologies are also emerging, which promise once again to open new vistas in science and new applications that will change society.

© 2015 Optical Society of America

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