Optics Limericks Contest

Christina Folz

 

imageEdward Lear popularized the limerick with his 1845 Book of Nonsense.

 

If you’ve been following the blog on OPN’s Web site, then you may have already read these fine optics limericks. They are the winning submissions from an optics limerick contest that OSA held back in 1977. When I found them in an old issue of Optics News (OPN’s precursor), I was so delighted that I thought I’d share them with OPN’s current readers.

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