Abbreviations/Acronyms

advanced lightwave platform

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

American Science Information Institute

American Society for Information Science

communications, information and processing services

deformation of aligned phase

discrete Fourier transform

digital information display

deformable membrane device

Defense Technical Information Center

digital waveform generator

Earth orbiting polar platform

extended superframe format

European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technology

fast cosine transform

fast Fourier transform

fiber-linked array image formatter

fiber optic current transformer

Fourier transform

Fourier transform infrared; frustrated total internal reflection

Fourier transform spectroscopy

graphics performance characterization

high-performance CCD

high-performance parallel interface

high-performance liquid chromatography

joint transform correlator

linear variable differential transformer

megabit — The megabit (also expressed as Mbit) is equivalent to one million (or 106) of the standard unit for digital information storage in telecommunications which is the bit.

megabyte — The megabyte (also expressed as Mbyte) is equivalent to one million (106) of the standard unit for digital information storage in computing which is the byte.

megabytes per second — The megabyte per second (not to be mixed up with the Mb/s -- megabits per second) is a unit of data transfer rate equivalent to one million (106) bytes per second over a given information network.

megabits per second — The megabit per second (not to be mixed up with the mbit/s – millibit per second, or Mbitps- megabit picosecond) is a unit of data transfer rate equivalent to one million (or 106) bits per second over a given information network.

National Technical Information Service

optical performance monitor

The Optical Society, formerly called Optical Society of America; optical spectrum analyzer

Office of Standards Code and Information

optical transform image modulation

pulse forming network

photoresponse nonuniformity

small form factor

silicon imaging device; Society for Information Display

tag-based image file format

transforming lens

uniformly redundant array

universal transform mercator