Abbreviations/Acronyms

closed-circuit television

closed-loop adaptive single parameter

capacitive loss factor

cathode-ray oscilloscope

digital storage oscilloscope

electron-energy-loss spectroscopy

insertion loss

laser-energized explosive device; low-energy electron diffraction

line of sight

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.

nonline-of-sight

optical loss test set

polarization-dependent loss

return loss