21 terms
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BSObismuth silicon oxide
Aabsolute (kelvin degrees), absorption, acoustic, alpha particle, analog, anode, ampere, amplitude, area, atomic, atomic mass, Helmholtz free energy, mass number, nucleon number
AAanalog to analog, anti-aliasing (AA optical filter e.g. low pass filter), approximate absolute temperature, atomic absorption
ABSabsorbance; acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
absabsolute value
BEATbistable etalon by absorbing transmission
DASdifferential absorption scattering; detector angular subtense; dual attachment station
dialdifferential absorption lidar
EAMelectro-absorption modulator
EAPelectro-absorption avalanche photodiode
EMAextramural absorption
EMLelectro-absorptive modulated laser
ESAEuropean Space Agency; excited state absorption
EXAFSextended x-ray absorption edge fine structure
IBAinhomogeneously broadened absorber
LASlaser absorption spectrometer; light-activated switch; local alignment system
MCTmercury cadmium telluride — Mercury cadmium teluride (HgCdTe) is a specific alloy combination that allows one to obtain any optical absorption bandgap of the material between 0 and 1.5 electron volts (eV) making it completely transparent at photon energies and wavelengths below the energy gap in the infrared.
MELmany-element laser; maximum excess loss (MEL) — the many element laser is a laser unit that consists of N like elements of active materials for support with the mode selection of the laser output. The mode selection properties of a many element laser have been experimentally exploited with as many as 10 like elements.
Maximum excess loss is the maximum power lost within a give system (typically a fiber optic communication system) including scattering, dispersion, absorption and coupling loss.
psiapounds per square inch absolute
SAM-APDseparate absorption and multiplication region avalanche photodiode
SESAMsemiconductor saturable absorber mirror
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