A crystal, glass, or quartz slicing and cutting machine is a specialized piece of equipment used in the manufacturing process to precisely cut and slice materials such as crystals, glass, and quartz into desired shapes, sizes, and thicknesses. These...

Plasmon ion-assisted deposition (PIAD) is a technique used in thin-film deposition processes, particularly in the production...

A system by which consumer products are assigned a bar code that is read by a scanner at a cash register, enabling...

Carbonization is a process in which organic materials are heated in the absence of air, leading to the decomposition of the...

In optics, an image is the reconstruction of light rays from a source or object when light from that source or object is...

Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) is a therapeutic approach that utilizes the combination of light, a photosensitizer, and...

Photolithography is a key process in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, and...

Popular process for silicon and polycrystalline production that consists of an alteration of the original state of a...

The reproduction of a picture or image, produced by scanning the image and converting it into electrical signals that carry...

A small instrument containing a picture support and a pair of magnifying lenses so arranged that the left eye sees only the...

A shower of cosmic rays whereby a high-energy electron produces one or more photons that convert into electron pairs, the...

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce...

Describing the standard television method of raster scanning in which the image is the product of two fields, each of which...

An infrared transmitting material used in the production of fluoride glasses for optical fibers.

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a compact and integrated device that incorporates multiple photonic components and...

A general term referring to the situation in which an image is not a true-to-scale reproduction of an object. The term also...

Automated optical inspection (AOI) is a technology used in manufacturing processes, particularly in electronics, to...

A probe card is a testing device used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry to evaluate and test the electrical...

A CCD image sensor, or charge-coupled device image sensor, is a type of electronic device used to convert optical images...

A photoconductive cell having cadmium sulfide as its photoconducting material for the production of a very high dark-light...

Hydrophilic is a term used to describe substances or materials that have an affinity for water. The word hydrophilic comes...

A plasma produced by the interaction of an intense laser pulse with a material surface. Production of ionized particle with...

A GaAlAs laser is a type of semiconductor laser diode that emits light in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic...

A self-healing, index-matching, nonporous coating for optical components that can eliminate production difficulties and...

A furnace used to heat glass materials. It may be a small laboratory-type furnace for small-scale experiments or large...

An instrument for determining the sensitivity of a photographic film to light. The film is given either a stepped exposure...

Array used in coded-aperture imaging experiments with two-beam CO2 lasers that provide an artifact-free process, faithful...

Harmonic generation refers to a nonlinear optical process in which incoming photons interact with a material and produce new...

A projection printer that is capable of reproducing a multiplicity of images from a master transparency on a single support...

A line-scan camera, also known as a line-scan image sensor or linear array camera, is a type of digital camera designed to...

The universal constant h that has a value of 6.6260693 x 10-34 Js. A quantum of energy is equal to the product of the...

Flow chemistry, also known as continuous-flow chemistry, is a chemical manufacturing process where reactions take place in a...

Stimulating light used for the production of energy through photosynthesis, solar cell or other light senstitive device.

Luminescence is the emission of light that occurs without the involved substance undergoing a significant increase in...

The recording of patterns by the production and use of latent electrostatic charge patterns. See electrostatic process.

A photoanalytical instrument for analysis of jaundice conditions in infants that measures bilirubin (a breakdown product of...

Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology that belongs to the powder bed...

Also duty factor, duty ratio. The product of the pulse duration and the pulse repetition frequency of a wave composed of...

The product of the actual base or baseline of a rangefinder or heightfinder, and the power or magnification of the...

A chemical reaction involving the production of light. The reaction of ethylene with ozone is chemiluminescent.

A molded lens is an optical lens manufactured using a molding process, typically involving the shaping of a material, such...

A cathode-ray tube that increases the brightness or size of an image or forms a visible image from invisible radiation. The...

1. In color development, the chemical that combines with certain by-products of the development procedure to form a dye. 2....

A system for fabricating optical fiber, consisting of a furnace that heats the materials, a polymer coating stage, a...

The collection and analysis of data relevant to monitoring the rate and quality of industrial production, either...

A loose term for a single polishing machine. In a lens factory it is the minimum unit of production.

In optics, the production of maxima and minima by the superimposition of two sets of interference fringes from light of two...

The production of rough glass lens blanks that are pressed while red-hot to the approximate size and shape of the finished...

Optical design and engineering services involve the development, customization, and optimization of optical systems and...

The amount of energy required to raise the energy level of an atom; a necessity if the atom is to radiate energy. High...

The use of a plasma to induce the formation of oxides in the production of graded-index optical fibers.

Digital signal processing (DSP) refers to the manipulation and analysis of signals, which are representations of physical...

Optical manufacturing tools and machinery encompass a wide range of equipment, instruments, and systems used in the...

The use of computer systems for monitoring and controlling industrial production.

The power that gives rise to the production of energy at the rate of 1 joule per second.

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a nanolithography technique used for fabricating nanoscale patterns on a substrate. It is a...

Frame rate refers to the frequency at which consecutive images, or frames, are displayed in a video sequence. It is...

The production of an image on a magnetic film that is exposed to infrared radiation and heated to a point above Curie...

A lens blank is a piece of optical material in a raw, unfinished state, typically in the form of a disk or block, from which...

An optical storage product that can be used for playback only.

Laser marking is a process in which a laser beam is used to mark or engrave a surface by altering its properties or...

A heterochromatic photometric process using successive comparison of similar chromaticities and the calculation of relative...

A point cloud is a set of data points in a three-dimensional coordinate system, where each point represents a specific...

Any photographic medium that, when chemically developed, produces an exact photographic reproduction of the original.

The product of Avogadro's constant and the electrical charge of an electron; thus, the electrical charge carried by 1 gmol...

Phototherapy is a medical treatment that involves the use of light to treat various conditions, particularly those related...

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment refers to a class of specialized apparatus used in the process of chemical vapor...

A robotic process commonly employed by automakers that enables high-speed and flexible production throughput by using...

Process developed for the production of high-resolution patterns in electro- and magneto-optics. These high-generation...

A hydrogel is a three-dimensional network of polymer chains that are hydrophilic, meaning they have a strong affinity for...

Remote sensing is a method of data collection and observation where information about objects, areas, or phenomena on...

Phase matching is a crucial concept in the field of optics, particularly in nonlinear optics and the generation of coherent...

Epitaxial deposition is a process used in semiconductor manufacturing and materials science to grow a thin crystalline...

A sputtering target is a solid material used in the process of physical vapor deposition (PVD), specifically sputtering....

A device used to measure the opening time of a shutter. The most common devices depend on the charging or discharging of an...

Diamond turning refers to a precision machining process used to produce complex optical components, particularly lenses and...

A product of the area of a light beam (normal to its direction of propagation) and the solid angle that the beam includes;...

The production of a positron-electron pair by a photon having energy greater than one mega-electron-volt, whereby some of...

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a manufacturing process that builds three-dimensional objects...

Holography is a technique used to capture and reconstruct three-dimensional images using the principles of interference and...

A reproduction made of an original grating -- usually by casting thermosetting plastics onto the original -- to avoid the...

A near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer is an analytical instrument used to measure the absorption, transmission, or reflection...

A machine vision system is an integrated combination of hardware and software components designed to capture, process, and...

Photonics contract manufacturing refers to the outsourcing of the production of photonics-related components, devices, or...

Production of a repeated image of a transmitted beam through a diffractive optical element such as a holographic card or...

Photoresist is a light-sensitive material used in photolithography processes, particularly in the fabrication of...

A vacuum tube in which a magnetic field is superimposed onto the tube's electrical field. When the two fields are aligned,...

Laser texturing is a manufacturing process that involves using a laser beam to selectively modify the surface of a material,...

In the context of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, a wafer refers to a thin, flat disk or substrate made of a...

Refers to the characteristic hue of the ocean according to the presence and concentration of specific minerals or...

The study concerned with the stimulation of chemical activity by laser light as a result of the absorption of photons by a...

Reactive evaporation refers to a process in thin-film deposition where a material is deposited onto a substrate through...

A process for the production of optical fibers. A glass bait is rotated in a traversing flame of a reaction burner....

Metabolic imaging refers to the visualization and quantification of metabolic processes within living organisms, tissues, or...

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a manufacturing process that involves creating three-dimensional...

A metabolite is any small molecule that is a product of metabolism, the chemical processes that occur within living...

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a compound made up of gallium (Ga) and nitrogen (N). It is a wide-bandgap semiconductor material...

Remote inspection refers to the process of inspecting, evaluating, or monitoring assets, equipment, infrastructure, or...

A method of determining prism power at any point on a lens. Prism power equals the product of the dioptric power and the...

The production of holograms initially from either conventional photographs or incoherent optical equipment.

A reflection hologram using multiple color lasers that integrates various graphical techniques to allow the display of...

A technical specification for a consumer product drawn up by Sony and Philips. CD/I combines audio, video and text recorded...

An optical barcode reader, commonly known as a barcode scanner, is a device that uses optical technology to capture and...

An electron tube that is used as a camera tube for a television system. When the picture to be transmitted is focused on a...

The determination of what, how much and in what proportions chemicals must be combined to produce the desired reactions and...

Epitaxial equipment refers to a set of specialized tools and systems used in the process of epitaxy, which is the growth of...

In chemistry, a halide refers to a chemical compound containing one or more halogen atoms bonded to another element. The...

Rare-earth elements (REEs) are a group of seventeen chemical elements found in the Earth's crust, characterized by their...

In a lens, the square of the radius of its aperture divided by the product of the focal length and the wavelength. It...

Metrology is the science and practice of measurement. It encompasses the theoretical and practical aspects of measurement,...

One of the two principal types of optical glass, the other being flint glass. Crown glass is harder than flint glass, and...

The term photochemical pertains to chemical processes or reactions that are initiated or influenced by the absorption of...

Modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) is a technique used in the fabrication of optical fibers. It is a specialized form...

Computation of tristimulus values by integrating or summing, over the visible wavelength region, the product of the relative...

1. A method of photographing distant objects with a lens of long focal length. 2. The reproduction of photographs over a...

A holographic camera, also known as a holographic imaging system or holographic recorder, is a specialized device used to...

The fiber optic connector developed and manufactured by Amphenol Fiber Optic Products.

In a medium of constant refractive index, the product of the geometrical distance and the refractive index.

Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is a molecular biology technique used to rapidly amplify specific DNA or RNA...

A photographic camera designed to produce reproduction film of visual information (pictures, line drawings, graphs) for...

Fused quartz and silica are closely related materials, both composed primarily of silicon dioxide (SiO2), but they are...

White, tetragonal crystals used in the production of luminous coatings.

A telescopic light-sensing meter used to measure illumination levels of small regions at a distance of many feet; it is used...

Design and engineering consulting services refer to professional services provided by specialized firms or individuals to...

Thin-film deposition equipment refers to machinery and tools used in the process of depositing thin layers of material onto...

A process used to control thickness and parallelism precisely during the production of plane-parallel plates. Elements are...

The production of visible light by infrared radiation whereby the light is produced by heat and not by any direct change in...

Gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) is a semiconductor alloy composed of gallium (Ga), arsenic (As), and phosphorus (P). It...

An aspheric lens is a type of lens whose surface profiles deviate from the traditional spherical shape. Unlike spherical...

The term used in reference to vacuum systems using oil and diffusion pumps, describes the migration of pump fluids and their...

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a method of achieving nuclear fusion, a process where two atomic nuclei combine to...

Computer numerically controlled (CNC) grinding is a manufacturing process that utilizes computerized controls and precision...

A colorimeter is a device used to measure and quantify the color characteristics of an object or a light source. It provides...

A digital twin refers to a virtual representation or digital counterpart of a physical object, system, or process. This...

Mathematically defined as the product of etendue (or throughput) and the square of the refractive index, the optical extent...

A graphic reproduction of an object formed by a microscope or another optical system. Also an instrument used to make tiny...

In an avalanche photodiode, the gain multiplied by the signal frequency in MHz.

Laser sintering is an additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing technology that involves using a laser to selectively fuse...

For a pulsed laser, the product of the energy per pulse (joule) and the pulse frequency (hertz); expressed in watts.

A television system that uses a slow rate of horizontal scanning to increase its reproduction and transmittance accuracy of...

A reagent is a substance or compound that is used in a chemical reaction to bring about a specific transformation or to...

A custom optic refers to an optical component that is designed, manufactured, and tailored to meet specific requirements or...

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) refers to a specific range of electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum....

A wedge in a rangefinder or heightfinder used to displace the image produced by one telescope so that it coincides with that...

Oleophobic is a term used to describe substances or materials that repel or resist oils. The word oleophobic comes from the...

The formation of microimages for microreduction. The technique is used, for example, in the production of precision reticles...

Ultraviolet reflectance refers to the ability of a material or surface to reflect UV light. Ultraviolet light is...

Interferometric modulator display (IMOD) is a type of display technology used in electronic devices, known for its energy...

The product of exposure time and irradiance or illuminance.

A prism with curved faces that collimates, reflects and refracts incident light. Often used in the production of...

A lumen is a unit of measurement used to quantify the amount of luminous flux, which is the perceived power of light. In...

The production of a block by attaching the optical elements to a plate by means of individual buttons of pitch or other...

Quantum dot light-emitting diode (QLED) is a display technology that utilizes quantum dots, which are semiconductor...

Videography refers to the process of capturing moving images and recording them in a digital format. It involves the use of...

Abbreviated SoC. A single chip containing all the electronic circuits required for a complete, working product. SoCs are...

Line scan refers to a method of capturing images or data by scanning a single line at a time, as opposed to capturing the...

The production and analysis of spectra with the use of a spectrograph.

Micro-optics refers to the design, fabrication, and application of optical components and systems at a microscale level....

Plasma-enriched deposition or planar magnetic sputtering that offers increased deposition rates in optical thin-film...