Abbreviations/Acronyms

cinema digital sound; conjugate direction search; correlated double sampling

Center for Commercial Development of Space

intensified charge-coupled device

active-matrix liquid crystal display

binary coded decimal

charge-coupled device

candela

circular dichroism; compact disc

compact disc read-only memory

compact disc/interactive

cesium dideuterium arsenate

continuous dynode electron multiplier

capacitive discharge mode

Center for Devices and Radiological Health

compensating digital readout multiplexer

control display unit

compressed digital video

carrier sense multiple access/collision detection

digital-to-analog converter

direct current

Defense Electronics Supply Center

differential interference contrast

diamondlike carbon; digital-loop carrier

Department of Commerce

Defense Technical Information Center

electrochemical diffused collector

electron multiplying CCD

field transfer charge-coupled device

high-performance CCD

infrared charge-coupled device

liquid crystal display

millicandela — The millicandela is equivalent to one thousandth (or 10-3) of the standard unit of luminous intensity that is the candela, which is the power emitted by a given light source in a particular direction.

mercury 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.

optical coherence domain reflectometer

optics coupling display unit

plasma-coupled device

passive-matrix liquid crystal display

supertwist liquid crystal display

twisted nematic liquid crystal display

variable-capacitance diode