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Optical engineering is the field of engineering encompassing the physical phenomena and technologies associated with the generation, transmission, manipulation, detection, and utilization of light.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Optical engineers use the science of optics to solve problems and to design and build devices that make light do something useful.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They design and operate optical equipment that uses the properties of light using physics and chemistry,<ref>Walker, Bruce H (1998). Optical Engineering Fundamentals. SPIE Press. p. 16. Template:ISBN.</ref> such as lenses, microscopes, telescopes, lasers, sensors, fiber-optic communication systems and optical disc systems (e.g. CD, DVD).
Optical engineering metrology uses optical methods to measure either micro-vibrations with instruments like the laser speckle interferometer, or properties of masses with instruments that measure refraction.<ref>Walker, Bruce H (1998). Optical Engineering Fundamentals, SPIE Press. p. 16. Template:ISBN</ref>
Nano-measuring and nano-positioning machines are devices designed by optical engineers. These machines, for example microphotolithographic steppers, have nanometer precision, and consequently are used in the fabrication of goods at this scale.<ref>Manske E. (2019) Nanopositioning and Nanomeasuring Machines. In: Gao W. (eds) Metrology. Precision Manufacturing. Springer, Singapore. {{#invoke:doi|main}}</ref>
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- Driggers, Ronald G. (ed.) (2003). Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering. New York: Marcel Dekker. 3 vols. Template:ISBN
- Bruce H. Walker, Historical Review, SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA. Template:ISBN {{#invoke:doi|main}}
- FTS Yu & Xiangyang Yang (1997) Introduction to Optical Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Template:ISBN.
- Optical Engineering (ISSN 0091-3286)