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hybrid mode
A mode possessing components of both electrical and magnetic field vectors in the direction of propagation.
beam position
In computer graphics, the point on the display screen where the electron beam is located before the display instruction is...
phase angle
1. The angle between two vectors that represent two simple periodic quantities that vary sinusoidally and that have the same...
circularly polarized light
A light beam whose electric vectors can be broken into two perpendicular elements that have equal amplitudes and that differ...
magneto-optic readout device
A device using the Kerr effect to read back the signals from mechanically recorded tapes and discs. It consists of a light...
electric vector
The electric field associated with an electromagnetic wave and thus with a lightwave. The electric vector specifies the...
azimuthal polarization
Azimuthal polarization refers to a specific polarization state of light where the electric field vector of the...
vector correlation
A machine vision technique of image correlation whereby the correlation kernel (template of the desired image) is...
pathogen
A pathogen is a biological agent, such as a virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan, or parasite, that causes disease in its...
magnetic vector
A term denoting the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field associated with an electromagnetic wave when describing...
particle image velocimetry
A whole-flow-field technique providing instantaneous velocity vector measurements in a cross-section of a flow that is...
right-hand polarized wave
A wave that is polarized elliptically or circularly polarized and in which the electric field vector — observed while...
analog stroke
An analog method of moving a cathode-ray tube beam across a display screen face, commonly used in high-performance vector...
laser-mediated gene transfer
Laser-mediated gene transfer refers to a technique in molecular biology and genetic engineering that utilizes lasers to...
gradient vector
In an image, the orientation and magnitude of the rate of change in intensity at any point.
plane-polarized light
A light beam whose electric vectors all vibrate in a single fixed plane.
principal E-plane
The plane in which the axis of maximum radiation and the electric vector are contained.
amplitude (light)
The magnitude of the electric vector of a wave of light. See electric vector; magnetic vector.
image transformation
The processing of an image or portion of an image by transform coding and analysis. Fourier, Hadamand, Kronecker and...
polarization
Polarization refers to the orientation of oscillations in a transverse wave, such as light waves, radio waves, or other...
Brewster's angle
For light incident on a plane boundary between two regions having different refractive indices, the angle of incidence at...
scalar diffraction theory
Scalar diffraction theory is a simplified approach used to describe the propagation of electromagnetic waves, particularly...
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on the development of algorithms and...
component
1. A constituent part. It may consist of two or more parts cemented together, or with near and approximately matching...
Wiener experiment
After putting a thick photographic emulsion on a front-faced mirror, and exposing the emulsion to monochromatic incident...
scalar theory of light
That theory that treats the light field as a single scalar field rather than as two coupled vector fields.
circular dichroism
Circular dichroism (CD) is a spectroscopic technique used to study the structural characteristics of chiral (asymmetric)...
magnitude
In astronomy, the relative brightness of a celestial body. Originally a scale from 1 to 6, where 1 represented the brightest...
half-wave voltage
That voltage required across a Pockels, Kerr or other electro-optic light modulator to retard one polarization electrical...
Poynting vector
In remote sensing technology, this represents the intensity of energy flow in the direction of wave propagation.
launch angle
The angle between the light input propagation vector and the optical axis of an optical fiber or fiber bundle.
hybrid electromagnetic wave
A wave in the electromagnetic spectrum that has both electrical and magnetic field vectors in the direction of propagation.
elliptically polarized light
A light beam whose electric vectors are broken into two elements of unlike amplitudes that are perpendicular to each other...

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