Quantum dots are particularly significant for optical applications due to their high extinction coefficient.

Ferrofluids have numerous optical applications because of their refractive properties; that is, each grain, a micromagnet, reflects light.

These materials have semiconductor, electrochromic, and optical applications.

Reasonably good approximations can be made, however, and these are important in many optical applications because they exhibit little or no diffraction over a limited distance.

For optical applications, this is characterized by the index of refraction.

Contrary to optical applications, defocusing can actually increase the precision and interpretability of the micrographs.

The term is typically associated with silicon films in optical applications such as solar cells.

Material dispersion can be a desirable or undesirable effect in optical applications.

This quality is desirable in some optical applications, but not in gemstones.

Thin antireflection coatings on glass for optical applications are also deposited by sputtering.