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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the academic journal, see <a href="Optical_Engineering_(journal)" title="Optical Engineering (journal)">Optical Engineering (journal)</a>.</div>

<p><b>Optical engineering</b> is the field of engineering encompassing the physical phenomena and technologies associated with the generation, transmission, manipulation, detection, and utilization of <a href="Light" title="Light">light</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Optical engineers use the science of <a href="Optics" title="Optics">optics</a> to solve problems and to design and build devices that make light do something useful.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They design and operate optical equipment that uses the properties of light using <a href="Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> and <a href="Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as <a href="Lens_(optics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lens (optics)">lenses</a>, <a href="Microscope" title="Microscope">microscopes</a>, <a href="Telescope" title="Telescope">telescopes</a>, <a href="Laser" title="Laser">lasers</a>, <a href="Sensors" class="mw-redirect" title="Sensors">sensors</a>, <a href="Fiber-optic_communication" title="Fiber-optic communication">fiber-optic communication</a> systems and <a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">optical disc</a> systems (e.g. <a href="CD" class="mw-redirect" title="CD">CD</a>, <a href="DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a>).
</p><p>Optical engineering <a href="Metrology" title="Metrology">metrology</a> uses optical methods to measure either micro-vibrations with instruments like the laser <a href="Speckle_imaging" title="Speckle imaging">speckle interferometer</a>, or properties of masses with instruments that measure <a href="Refraction" title="Refraction">refraction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Nano-measuring and nano-positioning machines are devices designed by optical engineers. These machines, for example microphotolithographic <a href="Stepper" title="Stepper">steppers</a>, have <a href="Nanometre" title="Nanometre">nanometer</a> precision, and consequently are used in the fabrication of goods at this scale.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Optical_lens_design" title="Optical lens design">Optical lens design</a></li>
<li><a href="Optical_physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Optical physics">Optical physics</a></li>
<li><a href="Optician" title="Optician">Optician</a></li>
<li><a href="Photonics" title="Photonics">Photonics</a></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li>Driggers, Ronald G. (ed.) (2003). <i>Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering.</i> New York: Marcel Dekker. 3 vols. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-8247-0940-2</bdi></li>
<li>Bruce H. Walker, Historical Review, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-8194-7877-1</bdi> <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1117%2F3.818136.ch2">10.1117/3.818136.ch2</a></li>
<li>FTS Yu &amp; Xiangyang Yang (1997) <i>Introduction to Optical Engineering</i>, <a href="Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>, <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-521-57493-5</bdi>.</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spie.org/x867.xml?WT.svl=mddp13">Optical Engineering</a> (<a href="International_Standard_Serial_Number" class="mw-redirect" title="International Standard Serial Number">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=0091-3286&amp;qt=results_page">0091-3286</a>)</li></ul>
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