Abbreviations/Acronyms

atomic vapor laser isotope separation

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

confocal laser scanning microscope

common optoelectronics laser detection system

copper vapor laser

direct laser interference patterning

diode-pumped laser

diode-pumped solid-state laser

emitter-coupled logic; external cavity laser

electro-absorptive modulated laser

excimer moderate-power Raman shifted laser device

focused laser lithographic system

gas transport laser

high-power fiber laser

International Laser Display Association

laser microprobe mass spectrometry

laser ablation from rapidly exchanged sources

laser absorption spectrometer; light-activated switch; local alignment system

light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

laser-activated silicon switch; laser spark spectroscopy

laser beam printer

laser cloud mapper

laser chemical vapor deposition

laser desorption

laser Doppler anemometry

laser Doppler velocimeter

laser-energized explosive device; low-energy electron diffraction

Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (of IEEE)

laser feedback microscope; lateral force microscope; longitudinal field modulator

laser-guided weapons system

laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

laser-induced cut and patch

laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy

laser ionization mass spectrometry

laser isotope separation

laser optoacoustic

laser Raman spectroscopy

laser scanning microscope

laser spot tracker

laser unequal path interferometer

matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization

many-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.

metal vapor laser

operational laser beam recorder

picosecond injection laser

pulsed laser deposition

planar laser-induced fluorescence

ring-laser gyroscope

semiconductor laser amplifier

semiconductor laser intersatellite link experiment