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Categories: Optical quantities, Physical optics, Geometrical optics
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optical path length  optical distance  optical length  optical path difference  Optical pathlength
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In optics, optical path length, also known as optical length or optical distance, is the length that light needs to travel through a vacuum to create the same phase difference as it would have when traveling through a given medium. Wikipedia
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In optics, optical path length, also known as optical length or optical distance, is the length that light needs to travel through a vacuum to create the same phase difference as it would have when traveling through a given medium. Wikipedia
The product of the distance light travels and the refractive index of the medium it travels through Wikipedia Disambiguation
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optical distance, optical length, optical path difference, Optical Path Length, Optical pathlength, path difference

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