Physical optics

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Physical optics

Quality:

Physical optics - branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization. Article “Physical optics” in English Wikipedia has 17.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Physical optics”, its content was written by 71 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 432 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 272 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #11778 in March 2004
  • Global: #11199 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #181888 in February 2020
  • Global: #53195 in August 2014

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Indonesian (id)
Optika fisis
41.0747
2Spanish (es)
Óptica física
29.9527
3Hebrew (he)
אופטיקה פיזיקלית
26.7316
4Polish (pl)
Falowa teoria światła
26.0726
5Catalan (ca)
Òptica física
25.7241
6Basque (eu)
Optika fisiko
23.1983
7Chinese (zh)
物理光学
22.1225
8Kazakh (kk)
Толқындық оптика
22.01
9German (de)
Wellenoptik
21.6085
10Turkish (tr)
Fiziksel optik
20.9289
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Physical optics" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Óptica física
1 542 970
2English (en)
Physical optics
701 859
3German (de)
Wellenoptik
288 724
4French (fr)
Optique physique
259 542
5Russian (ru)
Волновая оптика
190 089
6Polish (pl)
Falowa teoria światła
130 732
7Indonesian (id)
Optika fisis
107 974
8Italian (it)
Ottica fisica
77 642
9Chinese (zh)
物理光学
77 398
10Romanian (ro)
Optică ondulatorie
57 076
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Physical optics" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Physical optics
2 614
2Spanish (es)
Óptica física
1 275
3French (fr)
Optique physique
488
4German (de)
Wellenoptik
411
5Russian (ru)
Волновая оптика
351
6Chinese (zh)
物理光学
240
7Italian (it)
Ottica fisica
129
8Japanese (ja)
物理光学
110
9Polish (pl)
Falowa teoria światła
90
10Romanian (ro)
Optică ondulatorie
83
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Physical optics" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Wellenoptik
73
2English (en)
Physical optics
71
3French (fr)
Optique physique
67
4Spanish (es)
Óptica física
40
5Italian (it)
Ottica fisica
20
6Dutch (nl)
Fysische optica
17
7Chinese (zh)
物理光学
17
8Russian (ru)
Волновая оптика
13
9Ukrainian (uk)
Фізична оптика
11
10Hindi (hi)
भौतिक प्रकाशिकी
9
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Physical optics" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Catalan (ca)
Òptica física
1
2Arabic (ar)
بصريات طبيعية
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Fiziki optika
0
4Belarusian (be)
Хвалевая оптыка
0
5Bulgarian (bg)
Вълнова оптика
0
6Danish (da)
Bølgeoptik
0
7German (de)
Wellenoptik
0
8Greek (el)
Κυματική οπτική
0
9English (en)
Physical optics
0
10Esperanto (eo)
Fizika optiko
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Physical optics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Physical optics
272
2Arabic (ar)
بصريات طبيعية
214
3Chinese (zh)
物理光学
179
4French (fr)
Optique physique
162
5Polish (pl)
Falowa teoria światła
142
6Russian (ru)
Волновая оптика
121
7Ukrainian (uk)
Фізична оптика
110
8Belarusian (be)
Хвалевая оптыка
108
9Persian (fa)
نورشناسی فیزیکی
106
10German (de)
Wellenoptik
96
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
بصريات طبيعية
azAzerbaijani
Fiziki optika
beBelarusian
Хвалевая оптыка
bgBulgarian
Вълнова оптика
caCatalan
Òptica física
daDanish
Bølgeoptik
deGerman
Wellenoptik
elGreek
Κυματική οπτική
enEnglish
Physical optics
eoEsperanto
Fizika optiko
esSpanish
Óptica física
euBasque
Optika fisiko
faPersian
نورشناسی فیزیکی
fiFinnish
Aalto-optiikka
frFrench
Optique physique
heHebrew
אופטיקה פיזיקלית
hiHindi
भौतिक प्रकाशिकी
huHungarian
Hullámoptika
idIndonesian
Optika fisis
itItalian
Ottica fisica
jaJapanese
物理光学
kkKazakh
Толқындық оптика
koKorean
물리광학
ltLithuanian
Bangų optika
nlDutch
Fysische optica
plPolish
Falowa teoria światła
ptPortuguese
Óptica ondulatória
roRomanian
Optică ondulatorie
ruRussian
Волновая оптика
thThai
ทัศนศาสตร์เชิงฟิสิกส์
trTurkish
Fiziksel optik
ukUkrainian
Фізична оптика
zhChinese
物理光学

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#181888
02.2020
Global:
#53195
08.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#11778
03.2004
Global:
#11199
06.2012

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Physical optics from Wikipedia articles about Optics, Double-slit experiment, Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young and Geometrical optics. Whereas reading the article about Physical optics people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Diffraction, Optics, Geometrical optics, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics and Interference.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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