a phonon. Optical decay is dominant mechanism of quenching of excitation of active optical media. In solid-state lasers the optical decay limits the...

Software decay, in computing Decomposition of organic matter Mitochondrial decay, in genetics Tooth decay (dental caries), in dentistry Optical decay, in quantum...

last two decay mechanisms compete with stimulated emission reducing the efficiency of light amplification. The amplification window of an optical amplifier...

lightning after the ordinary lightning struck the ground, up to the optical decay of the phenomenon. Additional video was recorded by a high-speed (3000...

Tooth decay, also known as decay, is the breakdown of teeth due to acids produced by bacteria. The resulting cavities may be a number of different colors...

strength (rate) is competing with atomic decay caused by measurement backaction. People usually use optical depth or cooperativity to characterize the...

A nuclear clock or nuclear optical clock is an atomic clock being developed that will use the energy of a nuclear isomeric transition as its reference...

for a decay is the fraction of particles which decay by an individual decay mode or with respect to the total number of particles which decay. It applies...

An optical parametric amplifier, abbreviated OPA, is a laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths by an optical parametric amplification...

coherence tomography Optical cross section Optical decay Optical dilatometer Optical disc drive Optical downconverter Optical feedback Optical heterodyne detection...

electromagnetic radiation arising from high energy interactions like the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei or astronomical events like solar flares. It consists of...

physical decomposition of the storage medium. Optical media such as CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R, may experience data decay from the breakdown of the storage medium...

As with the decay of the free neutron (with a lifetime around 15 minutes), muon decay is slow (by subatomic standards) because the decay is mediated only...

software Data degradation, the decay of electromagnetic charge in a computer's storage Disc rot, the deterioration of optical media such as DVDs and CDs "Bit...

unpolarized particle with spin) decays, the resulting decay distribution must be isotropic in the rest frame of the decaying particle - regardless of the...

Optical pumping is a process in which light is used to raise (or "pump") electrons from a lower energy level in an atom or molecule to a higher one. It...

perturbed object or field, i.e. they describe perturbations of a field that decay in time. A familiar example is the perturbation (gentle tap) of a wine glass...

stable isotope, francium-223 (originally called actinium K after the natural decay chain in which it appears), has a half-life of only 22 minutes. It is the...

radiative decay rate of the transition. The number of excited states N {\displaystyle N} thus decays exponentially with time, similar to radioactive decay. After...

noted to be unused and decaying in 1859, so the line was probably abandoned long before this. In the United States, the first optical telegraph was built...

within the cavity. For an empty cavity, the decay constant is dependent on mirror loss and various optical phenomena like scattering and refraction: τ...

An optical waveguide is a physical structure that guides electromagnetic waves in the optical spectrum. Common types of optical waveguides include optical...

gamma decay, but must proceed by another route, such as beta decay in some cases, or internal conversion where beta decay is not favored. Beta decay is classified...

energy released from proton decay. For a hypothetical proton lifetime of 1037 years, Adams and Laughlin calculate that proton decay will raise the effective...

absorption of gamma rays. See also Mössbauer effect. Multivariate optical computing is an all optical compressed sensing technique, generally used in harsh environments...

clocks improve based on optical clocks or the Rydberg constant around 2030. Technological developments such as lasers and optical frequency combs in the...

and decay to emit light, strongly interact due to their dipole alignment. a system of microcavity polaritons (exciton-polaritons inside an optical microcavity)...

this range of wavelengths is called visible light (or simply light). The optical spectrum is sometimes considered to be the same as the visible spectrum...

In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is the ratio of the apparent speed of light in the air or vacuum to the speed...

microscopy (FLIM), and optical tomography. Over the years, this technique has gained significant attention for studying the fluorescence decay of various classes...