i think optical instrument is the instrument to study biologies that not even Using a electricity ..Like microscope and Non-optical instrument is which instrument is using a electricity like electron...
Optics is the branch of science that deals with the behaviour of light. Any thing which comes under the purview of this is termed optical. for eample optical lens, optical microscope .........etc
Optical use a laser to read and write data .Optical disks have very large storage capacity but they are not fast as harddisk .There are major types of optical disk 1.CD-Rom 2 Worm 3.Eraser...