An electron-beam lithography (EBL) system is a sophisticated nanofabrication tool used in the semiconductor industry and research laboratories to pattern extremely fine features with sub-micrometer or even nanometer-scale resolution. EBL systems...

The transmission and reception of information by optical devices and sensors.

1. An optical device used for projection of enlarged images of transparencies or lantern slides on a screen. 2. A device...

A large tank filled with liquid hydrogen, with a flat window at one end and complex optical devices for observing and...

An etalon is an optical device that consists of two parallel reflecting surfaces separated by a precise and known distance....

A liquid crystal light valve (LCLV), also known as a spatial light modulator (SLM), is an optical device that modulates the...

An optical device capable of transforming unpolarized or natural light into polarized light, usually by selective...

A photonic cavity, also known as an optical cavity, is a structure that confines electromagnetic radiation within a certain...

Nanophotonics is a branch of science and technology that explores the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, typically at...

An afocal optical device made up of lenses or mirrors, usually with a magnification greater than unity, that renders distant...

A lens is a transparent optical device that focuses or diverges light, allowing it to pass through and form an image. Lenses...

A quantum well is a structure in quantum mechanics that confines particles, such as electrons or holes, in one spatial...

A dichroic mirror, also known as a dichroic beamsplitter or interference filter beamsplitter, is an optical device that...

Multi-axis alignment refers to the process of aligning or adjusting components or systems in multiple spatial dimensions or...

The ratio of the size of the image of an object to that of the object. The ratio of the linear size of the image to that of...

MTF analysis/measurement equipment refers to instruments and tools used to measure and analyze the modulation transfer...

Blaze height typically refers to a parameter in the context of diffraction gratings, which are optical devices consisting of...

Retroreflection is a phenomenon in optics where light is reflected back toward its source, typically in a direction nearly...

An optical device that produces a line image lying along the axis from a point source of light; therefore, it has no...

An array of active optical devices (modulators, laser diodes and/or detectors), each of whose electrical inputs or outputs...

Photonic crystals are artificial structures or materials designed to manipulate and control the flow of light in a manner...

A beam shaper is an optical device or system designed to modify the spatial profile or intensity distribution of a laser or...

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms,...

That property of certain optical devices, e.g., a penta prism, that maintains the angular relationship between the entering...

An optical instrument consisting of a well- corrected objective lens or mirror with a light source and or object/image (i.e....

Birefringence is an optical property of certain materials that causes them to exhibit different refractive indices for light...

Liquid crystals are a state of matter that exhibits properties intermediate between those of conventional liquids and solid...

The distance between the object and the cornea, or the first surface of the objective in an optical device.

The Kerr effect, named after the physicist John Kerr who first observed it in 1875, is a nonlinear optical phenomenon where...

A corner cube, also known as a corner reflector or retroreflector prism, is a type of optical device used to reflect light...

A grating beamsplitter is an optical device that utilizes the principles of diffraction to split a beam of light into...

Second-order nonlinear optical properties refer to a class of phenomena exhibited by certain materials in response to...

Diffraction efficiency is a measure of how effectively a diffractive optical element (DOE) or diffraction grating directs...

Magneto-optics refers to the study and manipulation of the interaction between magnetic fields and light (electromagnetic...

In optics, the term image jump refers to a displacement or shift in the apparent position of an image when a change occurs...

A Risley prism, also known as a Risley prism pair or Risley rotating prism, is an optical device used for controlling the...

The angle subtended by two points or lines that are just far enough apart to be distinguished as separate. The ability of an...

The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor is an optical device used for measuring the wavefront aberrations of an optical system....

The field of view (FOV) refers to the extent of the observable world or the visible area that can be seen at any given...

In optics, an octave typically refers to a range of frequencies or wavelengths that spans a factor of 2. In other words,...

Any optical device that utilizes diffraction in an image-forming capability. Familiar diffractive lenses are zone plates,...

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

Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free...

A photon sieve is an optical device used in the field of optics and imaging. It's designed to focus and shape light,...

An antireflection coating (AR coating) is a thin film or coating applied to optical surfaces, such as lenses or windows, to...

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

An optical device used to monitor movement of the human eye.

A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is an optical device used to measure the phase difference between two collimated beams of...

A fiber optic imaging bundle is a specialized optical device composed of multiple optical fibers bundled together. Each...

A retroreflector is an optical device or structure that reflects incident light or electromagnetic waves back to their...

Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers,...

Meta-optics, also known as metasurface optics or flat optics, is a branch of optics that involves the design, fabrication,...

An optical device, such as a Nicol prism, capable of producing plane-polarized light, and used for detecting the effect of...

A beamsplitter is an optical device for dividing a beam into two or more separate beams. A simple beamsplitter may be a very...

A photon jet is a narrow, highly collimated beam of light that is formed when light interacts with small dielectric...

An instrument that measures the angle at which a prism can couple laser light into an optical waveguide; used to determine...

A geometric representation of a light path through an optical device; a line normal to the wavefront indicating the...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength-scale artificial structures, often referred to as meta-atoms or...

A Pockels cell, also known as an electro-optic modulator, is an optical device used to control the polarization of light by...

An electrical or optical device used to convert color coordinates.

Loss mechanisms that degrade the performance of all thin-film optical devices by removing radiant flux out of the specular...

An optical device that permits the alignment of a gun, cannon or rocket launcher system with its target.

Linear optics refers to the study and manipulation of light in a linear and deterministic manner, where the response of...

Fresnel reflection refers to the reflection of light at the interface between two different media with different refractive...

A spatial light modulator (SLM) is an optical device that modulates or manipulates the amplitude, phase, or polarization of...

A micro-ring resonator is a compact optical device that utilizes the resonant behavior of light within a small ring-shaped...

A lateral shearing interferometer is an optical device used in interferometry to measure phase differences between two beams...