Talk:Optical window

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I agree with merging the relevant bits of this article to atmospheric window, but there is content here that wouldn't fit there. The use of 'optical window' in the context of tissue optics in medical physics wouldn't be mergeable. If we had a larger article on tissue optics then a merge there would be appropriate, but until we do, we should probably keep at least that part of this article. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 13:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

This would make it pretty much a disambiguator, right? Sounds good. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:27, 29 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Agreed again - I think this article (and Radio window and Infrared window) should be merged into Atmospheric window. Maybe the best thing would be a new article Window (optics) for the optical component, keeping this page for the medical physics usage at least for the time being, with links to the other uses - roughly as TenOfAllTrades said. I don't mind doing some of this if there's a consensus in that direction. ChrisHodgesUK (talk) 20:01, 20 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I agree. Merge the three articles on atmospheric windows into a single article, keep the medical usage here (with a dab link at the top), and move the optical component to Window (optics).--Srleffler (talk) 06:41, 8 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

The term optical window is an umbrella term including the "spectral optical window" (UVB, visible and near IR spectrum that passes through the earth's atmosphere), the "technological optical window" (material that allows certain wavelengths to pass) and the "medical optical window" that already has its own page (near-infrared window in biological tissue) and probably should not even be included in this article. So, the way I see it, the page should be split into two parts, the one being the optical window (spectrum) and the other the optical window (optics), because now it is an umbrella article which is quite hard to define or understand; to be honest, it was quite hard for me to understand its content at first... --L'OrfeoGreco (talk) 02:58, 27 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

update: The problem was fixed (some months ago) and now there's window (optics) and optical window. L'Orfeo^{Son io} 22:19, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply