Abbreviations/Acronyms

photonic integrated circuit

active pixel sensor; active pixel system; Advanced Photon Source; American Physical Society; atom probe spectroscopy; autocorrelated photon spectroscopy

European Photonics Association; Environmental Protection Agency

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.

magneto-optical photonic crystal

Michelson polarizing inter-ferometer; multiphoton ionization

nonresonant multiphoton ionization

photonic crystal fiber

plastic-clad silica; photon correlation spectroscopy

photon-coupled transistor

photosynthetic photon flux density

photon scanning tunneling microscope

photon tunneling microscope; pulse transmission mode

single-photon emission computed tomography

single-photon ionization

two-photon excited fluorescence

two-photon fluorescence

two-photon polymerization

vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

vertical to surface transmission electrophotonic device