An optical isolator, or optical diode, is an optical component which allows the transmission of light in only one direction. It is typically used to prevent...
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An opto-isolator (also called an optocoupler, photocoupler, or optical isolator) is an electronic component that transfers electrical signals between...
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device in optical fiber communications Opto-isolator, a directional device in electronics Vibration isolator, any of various devices to isolate connected...
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magneto-optical junction with plasmonic nanorods. Optical isolator IBM Redbooks (9 November 1998). "5.4.6 Circulators". Understanding Optical Communications...
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to an optical isolator, except that the reverse propagating lightwave is directed to a third port for output, instead of being lost. An optical circulator...
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Spectroscopy (redirect from Optical spectroscopy)
absorption of gamma rays. See also Mössbauer effect. Multivariate optical computing is an all optical compressed sensing technique, generally used in harsh environments...
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narrow wavelength range. Alkali vapours can therefore be used as an optical isolator or as an extremely sensitive magnetometer. The Faraday effect is chromatic...
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Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) is a laser space communication system in operation that improved communications performance 10 to 100 times over...
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An optical cavity, resonating cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors or other optical elements that confines light waves similarly to...
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Laser (redirect from Optical maser)
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word...
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James R. Biard (section The Optical Isolator)
patents include the first infrared light-emitting diode (LED), the optical isolator, Schottky clamped logic circuits, silicon Metal Oxide Semiconductor...
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The photons that were scattered by the sample were collected through an optical flat at the end of the tube. To maximize the sensitivity, the sample was...
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mirror is also an integral part of the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. Optical isolator See-through graphics Window film "How to Spot a Two-Way Mirror". Snopes...
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Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient force trap) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move...
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power is guided in the same fiber mode as the incoming signal. An optical isolator is usually placed at the output to prevent reflections returning from...
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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution imaging technique with most of its applications in medicine and biology. OCT uses coherent near-infrared...
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laser beam touches the surface should be on the focal plane of the laser's optical system and is usually synonymous with its focal point. This point is typically...
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is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a population inversion in laser...
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Laboratories using electrically switched Kerr cell shutters in a ruby laser. Optical nonlinearities such as Q-switching were fully explained by Nicolaas Bloembergen...
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Index-matching material (category Optical materials)
matching. This back-reflection tolerance might be achieved using an optical isolator or by way of reduced coupling efficiency. For some applications, instead...
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modulation of light, and are the basis of optical isolators and optical circulators; such components are required in optical telecommunications and other laser...
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multiple positions within the beam after focusing it with a lens of high optical quality and known focal length. To properly obtain M2, the following steps...
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DVD (redirect from Optical Disk Device)
abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first...
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M squared Mode locking Multiple-prism grating laser oscillator Optical amplifier Optical cavity Optical isolator Output coupler Q-switching Category...
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optical parametric oscillators, and generation of terahertz radiation. Optical data storage uses lasers, and the emerging technology of 3D optical data...
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printers, barcode readers, and optical disc drives, commercialized by Japanese entrepreneurs, and opened up the field of optical communication, playing an...
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In atomic, molecular, and optical physics, a magneto-optical trap (MOT) is an apparatus which uses laser cooling and a spatially varying magnetic field...
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laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser. The gain results from the stimulated emission of photons...
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Wolf, Emil (1995). Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41711-2. Chapter 5, "Optical Beams," pp. 267....
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functions while using the water jet to guide the laser beam, much like an optical fiber, through total internal reflection. The advantages of this are that...
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