Optical elements that have been coated with one or more layers of dielectric, or metallic material. These coatings serve to reduce or increase reflection from the surface, and to protect the surfaces from fumes or abrasion. Magnesium fluoride,...

A beamsplitter is an optical device for dividing a beam into two or more separate beams. A simple beamsplitter may be a very...

Elastic deformation of a dielectric caused by volume force when the dielectric is placed in an inhomogeneous electric field.

A waveguide with a rectangular cross section that is composed entirely of dielectric materials.

Information storage on a dielectric medium that represents the data as those spots on the medium having electrostatic...

A crystal that is characterized by its relatively poor electrical conductance.

Exhibiting the characteristic of materials that are electrical insulators or in which an electric field can be sustained...

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) is a powerful technique that combines Raman spectroscopy with the enhanced spatial...

An optical lens manufactured to control the transmission of light over a specified wavelength range. Low absorption lenses...

1. In astronomy, the angle measured clockwise (eastward) in a horizontal plane, usually from north (true north, Y-north,...

A laser with output over a wide range of wavelengths spanning the far-infrared region of the spectrum (30 to 1000 µm);...

A photon jet is a narrow, highly collimated beam of light that is formed when light interacts with small dielectric...

A plasma accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that uses electric fields and magnetic fields to accelerate charged...

A filter that controls the spectral composition of transmitted energy partially by the effects of interference. Frequently,...

A capacitor that uses glass as its dielectric material.

Optic surface cleaning liquid that may be applied to glass, crystal, dielectric and metal surfaces; however, may not be...

A transparent dielectric film, bounded by material of a lower index of refraction, capable of guiding light.

A high-reflectance coating consisting of alternating layers of quarter-wave film of a higher refractive index and lower...

A thin-film device containing miniature optical components connected via optical waveguides on a transparent dielectric...

A waveguide is a physical structure or device that is designed to confine and guide electromagnetic waves, such as radio...

Plasmonics is a field of science and technology that focuses on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and free...

Ferroelectric materials are a type of dielectric materials that exhibit spontaneous electric polarization, meaning they...

The effect, present in particular phosphors, that is defined as a transformation in the dielectric constant of a material...

A waveguide made up of a dielectric material, such as plastic or mica, in a cylindrical form, through which the waves travel.

A dichroic mirror, also known as a dichroic beamsplitter or interference filter beamsplitter, is an optical device that...

Optical materials refer to substances or compounds specifically chosen for their optical properties and used in the...

An optical crystal that possesses a strong nonlinear dielectric response function to optical radiation. A material with a...

A lens made up of a dielectric material that is capable of influencing radio waves much in the same way an optical lens...

Broadband dielectric mirrors, also known as broadband mirrors, are optical coatings designed to efficiently reflect or...

The Kerr effect, named after the physicist John Kerr who first observed it in 1875, is a nonlinear optical phenomenon where...

Controlled beam technology that introduces beams of sunlight through holes in a roof that are relayed throughout the...

State typically studied in liquid crystals in which the dielectric coefficient parallel to the director is less than the...

The dielectric coefficient parallel to the director in a liquid crystal display (LCD), rather than perpendicular to the...

The Lorentz oscillator model is a theoretical model used in physics to describe the response of a charged particle (such as...

A dielectric sphere with an index of refraction that varies with distance from the sphere center. A parallel beam of rays is...

A formulaic description of the linear change of the reciprocal optical dielectric tensor with either stress or strain.

Electric polarization characterized by homogeneous polar dielectrics and ascribed to the position of the permanent molecular...

A metalens, short for "metasurface lens," is a type of optical lens that uses nanostructured materials to manipulate light...

A polariton is a quasiparticle resulting from the strong coupling between photons (light particles) and certain types of...

The use of an electric field or signal to couple a lightwave from one dielectric waveguide into another dielectric waveguide.

Analysis of the reflection spectrum that allows the determination of the experimental dielectric function.

An interference filter in which a very thin metal foil with a periodic array of square holes (inductive mesh) or a thin...

Successive layering of resistive, dielectric and conductive inks on a substrate by a type of screening process.

Optical coatings are thin layers of materials applied to optical components, such as lenses, mirrors, filters, and prisms,...

A shallow, fine-pitch diffraction grating having a precise dielectric overcoating that experimentally has absorbed...

A corner cube, also known as a corner reflector or retroreflector prism, is a type of optical device used to reflect light...

A type of recording material, usually a photodielectric polymer, offering in situ development mechanisms because of its...

Usually a dielectric coating on glass or plastic optics; a coating that is comparable in hardness to glass itself.

A type of surface-emitting laser diode that uses dielectric mirrors to produce surface emission. The laser cavity is...

A dielectric ceramic material used in laser capillary tubes because of its high electrical resistivity and high thermal...

A number that indicates the magnitude of the shift in a solid of positive and negative charges in opposite directions when a...

A surgical device used to deliver laser light. Specifically,contact tips are made with artificially grown sapphire which is...