Optics is the branch of physics that describes the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter. Optics explained and characterized by optical phenomena. The word comes from the Latin optics ὀπτική, meaning the display.
The field of optics usually describes the properties of visible light, infrared and ultraviolet light, but as the light is an electromagnetic wave, a similar phenomenon also occurs in the X-rays, microwaves, radio waves, and other forms of radiation...
