Epitaxial deposition is a process used in semiconductor manufacturing and materials science to grow a thin crystalline layer, known as an epitaxial layer, on a substrate. The term epitaxial refers to the relationship between the crystal structures...

A method of growing single crystals in which atoms and molecules from gaseous organic compounds interact and form a layer on...

A pump-probe technique whereby a single wavelength source may be used in order to excite a given sample to determine...

A fiber optic transceiver, often simply referred to as an "optical transceiver," is a device used in fiber optic...

Two-photon polymerization (TPP) is a technique used in additive manufacturing, specifically in the field of 3D printing. It...

An inspection device in which the profile of a mechanical part is projected onto a ground-glass screen at a precisely known...

A breakout cable, also known as a fan-out cable or breakout assembly, is a type of cable that combines multiple individual...

The Weissenberg method, named after the German physicist Karl Weissenberg, is a technique used in x-ray crystallography for...

A pixel, short for "picture element," is the smallest controllable element of a digital image or display. It is a...

Three-photon microscopy is an advanced imaging technique that belongs to the family of multi-photon microscopy methods. It...

A crystalline semiconductor alloy used as the light confinement layer in both single- and double-heterostructure diode...

An imaging technique in which an object moving through an interference field formed in space scatters light and is spatially...

A machine vision lens is a specialized optical lens designed for use in machine vision systems, which are used for automated...

A mode of laser printing in which each pixel is printed four times, providing sharper lines and a continuous tone from...

A photovoltaic device that consists of multiple p-n junctions to produce a greater efficiency when in use than that of...

Single wavelength source with a larger linewidth often containing multiple longitudinal modes.

Harmonic generation refers to a nonlinear optical process in which incoming photons interact with a material and produce new...

An infrared lens is an optical component specifically designed and optimized for transmitting, focusing, or manipulating...

Popular process for silicon and polycrystalline production that consists of an alteration of the original state of a...

Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) is a therapeutic approach that utilizes the combination of light, a photosensitizer, and...

A device where each pixel in the detector array is mated with a preamplifier on a single silicon chip, providing sensing and...

A laser, which stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," is a device that produces coherent and...

Wide-field, low-magnification device that consists of two compound microscopes focused on a single object, producing an...

A splice accomplished by the application of localized heat sufficient to fuse or melt the ends of two lengths of optical...

A cylindrical lens is an optical component that has different curvatures along its two orthogonal axes, resulting in a shape...

An aptamer is a short, single-stranded DNA or RNA molecule that can bind to a specific target molecule with high affinity...

Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is a molecular biology technique used to rapidly amplify specific DNA or RNA...

A device for obtaining very low crosstalk in a crosspoint by arranging two simple switches along different arms of a passive...

Integrated photonics is a field of study and technology that involves the integration of optical components, such as lasers,...

The area of optics that deals with the propagation of Gaussian laser beams in free space, or any general medium - i.e....

A small section of the surface of a sensor corresponding to a single pixel in the image.

A fiber optic spectrometer is a device used for measuring the spectral content of light. It utilizes optical fibers to...

A wide-angle lens is a type of camera lens that has a shorter focal length than a standard or normal lens, allowing it to...

Theoretical calculation of the cross section for a nuclear reaction given in the vicinity of a single resonance level in the...

A quantum of electromagnetic energy of a single mode; i.e., a single wavelength, direction and polarization. As a unit of...

An APD detector, or avalanche photodiode detector, is a type of photodetector used to detect light or optical signals by...

1. The combination of the effects of two or more stimuli in any given sense to form a single sensation. With respect to...

Lidar, short for light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing technology that uses laser light to measure distances and...

GaN (gallium nitride) distributed feedback (DFB) lasers refer to a specific type of semiconductor laser based on Gallium...

A form of dispersing prism, often used in monochromators, that consists of a common right-angle prism with a 30°...

A detector array refers to a collection of individual detector elements arranged in a two-dimensional grid or matrix format....

A laser whose output is limited to a single wavelength.

A visual, single-unit spectrophotometer with a biprism and a Wollaston prism. The Wollaston prism polarizes coincident...

Mode hopping in the context of lasers refers to a phenomenon where a laser system abruptly switches from one longitudinal...

The method by which Thomas Young in 1802 disproved Newton's corpuscular theory of light by the formation of interference...

That distortion resulting from dispersion of the group velocity of a propagating mode. It is the only distortion occurring...

Single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) is a group of super-resolution microscopy techniques that surpass the...

Radiation consisting of more than a single wavelength in the visible region of the spectrum.

Freeform mirrors refer to reflective optical components that deviate from traditional symmetric or rotationally symmetric...

The direct computation of the Fourier transform of the space variant system output of an optical processor with a single...

A device that is used to determine the index of refraction of a gas or liquid through the interference patterns formed by...

A time-to-amplitude converter (TAC) is an electronic circuit that converts a time interval between two events into an...

The incident ray, the normal to the refracting surface at the point of incidence of the ray at the surface, and the...

An otoscope is a medical device used by healthcare professionals, particularly ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists,...

A lens composed of two or more separate elements of optical glass that may or may not be cemented together. The surfaces of...

The measured change in absorption at a single wavelength while altering experimental parameters such as the incident...

The simultaneous collection of two or more signals at a single location. In a digital computer, it refers to the number of...

A closed-loop system that compensates for thermal blooming by optimizing only one parameter: the amplitude of the phase...

A device that is fabricated in a single piece; A device (i.e. circuit) that is operated at a single frequency or a single...

Made up of a single color.

Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) is a superresolution microscopy technique that enables imaging of...

Referred to as SWCNTs, these cylindrical nanostructures composed of a folded sheet of graphene can be used as near-infrared...

A passive infrared system that uses two line-of-sight telescopes to generate both narrow and wide field-of-view images of...

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that forms at temperatures close to absolute zero. It is named after...

1. To influence to a single direction. 2. Voltage that is applied to a solid-state device.

Optofluidics is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from optics and fluidics to create devices and systems...

A stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed.

A grazing incidence mirror telescope with concentric conic surfaces having a single common point: a paraboloid-hyperboloid...

In a dual-ring local area network, a node that is connected only to the primary, active ring and not to the secondary ring...

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce...

A passive fiber optic coupler that divides light from a single fiber into two or more fiber channels.

The multiple storage of a single image.

An electromagnon is a quasiparticle excitation that combines aspects of both magnetism and electric polarization in a...

CoaXPress (CoaXPress or CXP) is a standardized digital interface and communication protocol used primarily in machine vision...

1. A piece of glass with plane parallel surfaces used to admit light into an optical system and to exclude dirt and...

Combining light beams, usually of unlike frequencies, to form a single beam with a frequency that is equal to the frequency...

A GRIN (gradient index) lens is a type of optical lens that utilizes a gradient in refractive index across its volume rather...

A monolithic device containing both photonic and electronic sources, detectors, modulators, etc., on a single semiconductor...

A monochromator is an optical instrument used to isolate and select a narrow range of wavelengths from a broader spectrum of...

Abbreviated SoC. A single chip containing all the electronic circuits required for a complete, working product. SoCs are...

A method of measuring distance by recording a single scene from two points of perspective. Surveying instruments can be...

A doubly refracting crystal having a single axis along which there is an absence of double refraction.

Epitaxial refers to the growth of a crystalline layer on a crystalline substrate in such a way that the orientation of the...

1. The additive process whereby the amplitudes of two or more overlapping waves are systematically attenuated and...

Volumetric imaging refers to the capture, visualization, and analysis of three-dimensional (3D) information from a volume of...

A refractometer that has a greater resolving power than a standard refractometer, and that uses a pentagonal prism to split...

For a single-mode fiber, the measurement of the irradiance distribution at the fiber's end face.

A photonic crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) refers to a type of laser diode that emits light from its surface rather...

Sapphire optical fiber is a type of optical fiber made from single-crystal sapphire, which is a form of aluminum oxide...

A laser diode module is a compact device that incorporates a laser diode, optics, and often other components into a single...

1. In detector technology, the long wavelength at which detector response falls to a set percentage (usually 20 or 50...

A device that provides means for accurately moving minuscule tools over the surface of a microscopic object. The motion...

The number of channels per unit bandwidth handled by a single optical fiber.

A microscope in which laser light is delivered through single-mode fibers that replace the pinhole usually used in confocal...

The holographic recording of sequences of high-speed phenomena. With a multiple beam laser, multiple holograms that depict...

A sapphire window refers to a transparent optical component made from sapphire crystal. Sapphire is a single-crystal form of...

A fiber optic sensor is a device that uses optical fibers to detect and measure physical, chemical, biological, or...

A group of single emitter laser diodes, usually arranged vertically or horizontally with respect to each other. The power...

A binocular microscope designed for the viewing of stereo pairs. As these stereoscopic image pairs are seen through a...

The span of frequencies within which a single channel of broadcast television must fall; in the US, it is 6 MHz.

A fiber optic cable assembly refers to a complete unit consisting of optical fibers, connectors, protective jackets, and...

Germanium crystal refers to a crystalline form of the element germanium (Ge), which is a metalloid and semiconductor...

The process of grinding the toric surface of a single vision sphero-cylindrical lens.

A light beam whose electric vectors all vibrate in a single fixed plane.

A telescopic eyepiece comprising five or six simple lenses in the form of three doublets or two doublets and a singlet.

A term pertaining to devices (generally optical) designed for use with both eyes viewing through a single exit pupil. The...

Microfluidics is a multidisciplinary field that involves the manipulation and control of very small fluid volumes, typically...

Optical tweezers refer to a scientific instrument that uses the pressure of laser light to trap and manipulate microscopic...

Fine lines, wires or threads used in the focal plane of many optical instruments to point out and locate particular objects...

A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a miniaturized device that integrates various laboratory functions and capabilities onto a single,...

A linear image sensor is a type of solid-state electronic device used to capture and convert light into electrical signals....

A camera tube widely used in television broadcasting. It consists of three sections within a single vacuum envelope. 1. A...

Scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (sCMOS) refers to a type of image sensor technology specifically designed...

A device having a pair of decentered lenses, one for each eye, that focuses on a single object as a magnifier. It is often...

A telescopic eyepiece that produces a field of view between 40° and 50°. The eyepiece consists of a single element...

A phenomenon, exploited for medical imaging, in which the nuclei of material placed in a strong magnetic field will absorb...

A diffraction grating is an optical component consisting of a surface with a periodic structure of equally spaced, parallel...

An instrument that measures several optical parameters, such as optical power and wavelength, with a single measurement...

An accelerometer is a sensor or transducer that measures the rate of change of velocity of an object, or in simpler terms,...

A nanotube, also known as a nanotubule or simply a tube-like structure, is a nanoscale cylindrical structure composed of...

An achromat, in the context of optics, refers to a type of lens or lens system designed to reduce chromatic aberration....

One or more optical elements – typically cemented together - in an optical system that are treated as a single group;...

The point spread function (PSF) is a fundamental concept in imaging that describes the response of an imaging system to a...

Spherical aberration is an optical aberration that occurs when light rays passing through a lens or curved optical surface...

Pertaining to or as a function of wavelength. Spectral quantities are evaluated at a single wavelength.

An optical waveguide in which only the lowest order bound mode, which may consist of a pair of orthogonally polarized...

An array of optically distinct fibers that are fused into one strand. They are used to keep the resolution efficiency of the...

Flow chemistry, also known as continuous-flow chemistry, is a chemical manufacturing process where reactions take place in a...

A technique based on the principles of laser trapping and used to manipulate the position of small particles by gradually...

An apparatus, designed for use with a camera, that is used to rapidly open the path from lens to film, to maintain the...

A spectroscopic technique in which an excitation band absorbs laser energy resulting in an electronic transition. The...

A fiber optic bundle split along its length with the ends of the fibers extending separately to illuminate different points...

The formation of transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors and other electronic elements directly on a flake of silicon by...

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

Sapphire crystal refers to a transparent, single-crystal form of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) known as corundum. It is one of the...

Line scan refers to a method of capturing images or data by scanning a single line at a time, as opposed to capturing the...

Thin-film coating, single or multilayer, that is applied to a substrate to increase its reflectance over a specified range...

A thin-film device that integrates optics and electronics on a single chip to provide a passive-ring resonator gyroscope...

Also known as single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM), this process was designed for imaging of sensitive samples and...

1. Viewed with one eye. 2. Describing an image as viewed from a single angle.

A line-scan camera, also known as a line-scan image sensor or linear array camera, is a type of digital camera designed to...

Lens testing equipment refers to a range of specialized tools and instruments used to evaluate the optical performance,...

A low-power (2x to 10x) magnifier consisting of a single positive lens assembly.

In the context of optics and lasers, a transverse mode refers to a specific spatial pattern of the electric field within the...

The combination of two or more signals for transmission along a single wire, path or carrier. In most optical communication...

The use of a micromanipulator in combination with a microscope for the purposes of examining, dissecting, or the...

Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a technique used in photon counting applications, particularly in the...

A form of liquid crystal in which flow does not take place in the usual manner. When examined with polarized light, the...

A semiconductor formed by applying a particular single-crystal layer to the specific insulator.

A defect of vision where a single object appears as two. Also known as double vision.

A phase reflection scanner that eliminates the need for a complex translation device while maintaining a high-energy-density...

A local area network topology in which all nodes are tapped off a single cable, and all hear every transmission on the cable.

That process by which radiation spontaneously emitted by a volume of optical materials is resonantly reabsorbed within the...

A quantum cascade laser (QCL) is a type of semiconductor laser that operates based on the principles of quantum mechanics....

A shaft, spindle or any object generally passed through a workpiece to hold, support or shape a particular piece during its...

A system of mirrors that can be used to direct light from a single laser source into any one of a number of separate optical...

In digital image processing, a subcategory of frame processing that transforms pixel brightness and contrast through use of...

An optical part constructed of a single piece of optical material. It is usually a single lens, prism or mirror.

A system in which a supplied signal causes the deflection of the electron beam in a cathode-ray tube, thus forming a visible...

An optical fiber, usually a single-mode fiber, that has an outer cladding with nearly the same index of refraction as the...

A color whose hue is not produced by a single wavelength in the visible spectrum, but is instead produced by mixing the...

Double-clad fiber (DCF) is a specialized optical fiber that features two concentric cladding layers surrounding a core. The...

A fiber optic transmission system in which data can go in only a single direction.

Device consisting of a laser diode, beam-correcting optics and collimating optics in a single housing. Also called a...

Often referred to as the geometric center of a given image or image plane, the centroid of an image is a fixed point located...

Graphene is a two-dimensional allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal...

A micro-ring resonator is a compact optical device that utilizes the resonant behavior of light within a small ring-shaped...

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique that enhances the Raman scattering signal of...

A mode of data transmission whereby each bit is generated in sequence on a single carrier.

The use of a small ultrastable master oscillator (a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser) to achieve single-frequency operation of a...

An imaging process in which the single opening of a simple pinhole camera is replaced with many openings called,...

A type of ultrasensitive laser spectroscopy that can detect quantities as small as a single atom of some substances and that...

A loose term for a single polishing machine. In a lens factory it is the minimum unit of production.

1. The use of an electronic microdensitometer to measure points of equal density on a photographic deposit. 2. A technique...

An array of refractive microlenses that are round, square and hexagonal and as small as 15 µm. They are used for...

The process of grinding the concave surface of a single-vision spherical lens.

The formation of a hologram by single reference-beam interferences with waves that are diffracted or scattered from a small...

A broadband continuum resonator that confines a wide range of wavelengths. From the optical confinement a single wavelength...

A method of depositing crystalline films one molecular layer at a time, by dipping the substrate into water containing a...

Phototheranostics, a portmanteau of "photo" (light), "therapy," and "diagnostics," refers to an emerging field that combines...

Superresolution refers to the enhancement or improvement of the spatial resolution beyond the conventional limits imposed by...

A single positive lens or group of lenses used in a projection system to collect light from a source and cause it to...

A device that converts data transmitted in the parallel mode to a sequence of bits at a single frequency for output in the...

When splitting the output of a single optical fiber into two or more fibers, the difference in the maximum loss between any...

Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is a specialized technique in biophysics and molecular...

A laser system consisting of a planar PN junction within a single crystal of gallium arsenide. The pair of parallel,...

A type of glass optical fiber that provides low pulse dispersion over a broad portion of the light spectrum and as a result...

An instrument that divides a single laser beam in two and uses one half as a sensing beam and the other as a reference beam,...

A distributed feedback laser (DFB laser) is a type of semiconductor laser diode designed to emit coherent, narrow-bandwidth...

Electronic circuit capable of distinguishing the pulses emitted by separate counters in a given time phase and determining...

The simplest method of transmission on a local area network. The entire bandwidth of the cable is used to transmit a single...

A method used in facsimile scanning that sweeps the elemental area across the copy in a spiral motion as the result of the...

A mode of data transmission whereby bits of information are carried simultaneously at different frequencies over a single...

An instrument that employs the interference of lightwaves to measure the accuracy of optical surfaces; it can measure a...

A filter that transmits a single spectral line emitted by a line source.

A set of international standards by which a single telecommunications channel is used to transmit voice and data...

An optical channel monitor (OCM) is a device used in optical communication systems to monitor and analyze the performance of...

A technique for confining atoms, molecules or small particles within one or more laser beams. This can be accomplished...

A semiconductor made up of two or more elements, in contrast to those composed of a single element such as germanium or...

A type of laser for which a large number of the components can be fabricated in or upon a single substrate.

Pixel binning, also known as pixel merging or pixel combining, is a technique used in digital imaging and camera technology....

A set of mirrors mounted on solenoids to move them into and out of the path of a laser beam, making it possible for multiple...

An electric discharge lamp in which the conducting vapor is that of metallic sodium instead of the usual mercury. It emits a...

Derivative of the half-tone screen process involving the fabrication of a binary pulse-width modulated copy of the...

A single-anode mercury pool tube that is designed to maintain a continuous cathode spot.

A technique for observing the decay of light emissions from sources following their pulsed excitations, based on recording...

A two-fiber optical cable containing two single-fiber cables that are connected by a strip of jacket and that can easily be...

Although low in sensitivity (approximately 10-7 m for helium-neon lasers), this holographic technique permits quantitative...

A means of achieving higher peak powers and more efficient harmonic generation by narrowing the pulse width and thus...

Spectral flow cytometry is an advanced flow cytometry technique that expands the capabilities of traditional flow cytometry...

A communications system that can transmit in only a single direction at a time. See duplex.

A single-particle scattering technique in which an incident laser beam is tightly focused by means of lenses to yield a...

A technique for measuring the concentration of any gases. Identical infrared beams are alternately chopped, one passing...

An experimental research technique by which absorbed or unabsorbed radiation is analyzed in order to characterize and...

A substance that transmits the infrared, but which is too delicate or fragile to be used in the form of a single crystal....

That theory that treats the light field as a single scalar field rather than as two coupled vector fields.

An optical element having two principal axes, slow and fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually...

A dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) refers to a type of optical fiber designed to minimize the effects of chromatic dispersion,...

Liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) is a display technology that combines liquid crystal materials with silicon-based...

A semiconductor device with the property of conducting current more easily in one direction than the other. It has two...

An optical clock is a highly precise and advanced timekeeping device that relies on the oscillations of electromagnetic...

An instrument designed for laser technology that is used to extract single pulses from the laser and transmit a portion of...

In a single-mode optical fiber, the wavelength that causes material dispersion and waveguide dispersion to cancel each...

A fiber optic preform is a cylindrical glass rod or tube used as the starting material for manufacturing optical fibers. It...

Lensless microscopy, also known as computational or holographic microscopy, is an imaging technique that captures and...

A type of interferometer in which two coils of optical fiber are arranged so that light from a single source travels...

1. To center an image or place it in any part of the television screen desired. Also applies to stills. 2. A single image of...

Light consisting of a single wavelength or a very narrow band of wavelengths.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, single-stranded RNA molecules, typically consisting of about 19 to 24 nucleotides,...

A flexible single- or multifiber cable having a bundle of glass fibers arranged to transmit an image.

A single number, defined by the computer program or the user that expresses the performance of an optical system. Also known...

A computer architecture used in parallel processing whereby the processing elements are directed by a single, central...

A quarter- or half-wave retarder made from two plates of quartz, mica or polymer with their fast axes crossed; the...

A single long gate electrode that transfers the line of charge packets to the transport shift register in a charge-coupled...

Raman spectroscopy is a technique used in analytical chemistry and physics to study vibrational, rotational, and other...

Device which determines particle velocity through the measurement of scattered interference of a beam pair from a single...

Single-mode fiber that preserves the plane of polarization of the light launched into it as the beam propagates through its...

A semitransparent mirror in an optical system that combines two or more output beams into a single coaxial beam.

A single wavelength of light that matches the color of a given sample when combined in suitable proportions with white light...

A single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is a specialized type of photodetector designed to detect extremely weak optical...

An aspheric mirror is an optical mirror surface that deviates from the shape of a perfect sphere, having a non-spherical...

A fiber laser is a type of laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions such as...

Also referred to as primary color, this is the classic chromatic aberration of a single element caused by the variation of...

A well controlled thin films technique for growing films with good crystal structure in ultra high vacuum environments at...

The series of equally spaced parallel slits that make up a scanning aperture in place of a single slit, in the scanning of a...

A model that predicts laser-induced damage to thin films caused by irradiation of identical, randomly distributed film...

A single band in a group of light and dark bands that can be viewed in the periphery of Fresnel diffraction shadow.

A digital camera is a device that captures and records still images or video in digital format. Unlike traditional film...

An advanced technique that allows the detection of one molecule within a crystal or a cell through optical excitation....

A camera designed to record at rates exceeding 50 fps. For frame rates up to about 500 fps, an ordinary pull-down mechanism...

A small region within a single crystal where the molecules form a perfect lattice.

Also referred to as the V number in fiber optics; the normalized frequency is a dimensionless quantity, denoted by the...

A laser in which the transition involved in stimulated emission of radiation takes place between two levels of an ionized...

A type of motion-picture camera in which single frames are photographed either automatically at a predetermined rate (as...

A solid-state video detector consisting of a single row of light-sensitive semiconductor devices, used in linear-array...

A standard for fiber optic telecommunications interfaces, with a 1300-nm data link operating over single-mode fiber at data...

A medical imaging method in which gamma camera heads rotate about the patient to detect radionuclides, enabling physicians...

Flow cytometry is a powerful technique used in biology and medicine for the quantitative analysis of the physical and...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a widely used molecular biology technique used to amplify a specific segment of DNA...

A short focal length (less than five inches) positive lens used to produce a magnified image of the object being viewed....

An optical combiner, in the context of optics and display technologies, refers to a device or component that combines...

A form of laser output noise that is caused by thermal, mechanical, or acoustical disturbances of the cavity length. Mode...

With respect to television, that part of a color television circuit that combines the I, Q and Y signals, and changes them...

Chip-on-board (COB) lights refer to a type of LED lighting technology where multiple LED chips are directly mounted onto a...

A solid with a structure that exhibits a basically symmetrical and geometrical arrangement. A crystal may already possess...

Consists of a pair of radio telescopes concentrated on a single celestial object. This technique creates a single radio...

A compound prism consisting of an assembly of small prisms cemented together that is used in a coincidence rangefinder to...

A method of manufacturing polycrystalline infrared-transmitting optical fiber by heating a single halide crystal billet and...

A method of evaluating image quality whereby a large number of rays are traced through a lens from a single object point,...

An intensified charge-coupled device (ICCD) camera is an advanced imaging device that combines the capabilities of both an...

Two microscopes that are coupled on a common stand, the two images being projected side by side in the field of view of a...

The process or device by which more than one signal can be sent over a single channel by using different time intervals for...

A light-sensitive resistor in which resistance decreases with increase in light intensity when illuminated. The device...

Instantaneous field of view (iFOV) is a term commonly used in the context of remote sensing, imaging systems, and optical...

In optics and photonics, "phase" refers to a property of electromagnetic waves, such as light, that describes the position...

Seidel aberrations refer to a set of monochromatic aberrations in optical systems, named after the German mathematician and...

Aplanatic points refer to specific points in an optical system where certain aberrations, such as spherical aberration or...

A scientific CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) camera is a type of digital camera specifically designed for...

1. A single unit in a device for changing radiant energy to electrical energy or for controlling current flow in a circuit....

Technology that relies on a highly efficient photodetector that can detect incoming light signals at one frequency and...

A narrow linewidth optically transmissive or reflective component intended for use with a highly monochromatic or single...

The action of a biological system responding to a single or multiple coherent particles of light produced from a laser...

The laser output refers to the generated and emitted light produced by a laser system. This output is characterized by...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength-scale artificial structures, often referred to as meta-atoms or...

A projection printer that is capable of reproducing a multiplicity of images from a master transparency on a single support...

In a single element, any lack of coincidence between the optical and the mechanical axes. In a lens system, any lack of...

In the context of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, a wafer refers to a thin, flat disk or substrate made of a...

A simple electrostatic lens with a focus controlled by a single potential difference.

1. In glass, a solid inclusion having a small diameter. 2. A particular, single crystal that, after undergoing the...

Pushbroom scanning is a technique used in remote sensing and imaging systems, particularly in satellite and aerial sensors,...

A type of color-generating cathode-ray tube that uses a shadow mask, a thin perforated electrode, located close to the...

A single housing that includes means of recording an image photographically and electronically.

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) is a compact and integrated device that incorporates multiple photonic components and...

Area scan, in the context of imaging and cameras, refers to a method of capturing an entire two-dimensional image in a...