• Spectral purity is a term used in both optics and signal processing. In optics, it refers to the quantification of the monochromaticity of a given light...
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    diagram (or the color triangle), which depicts the variables of hue and spectral purity. The added spatial dimension allows a color solid to depict the three...
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    Dirac delta function in the power spectral density centered at the frequency of the sinusoid. Such perfect spectral purity is not achievable in a practical...
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    of spectral purity. In short: In optimal color solids, spectral colors are equivalent to black (0 lightness, 0 chroma), but have full spectral purity (they...
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    the visible range. Spectral colors have 100% purity, and are fully saturated. A complex mixture of spectral colors can be used to describe any color, which...
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    A backward wave oscillator (BWO), also called carcinotron or backward wave tube, is a vacuum tube that is used to generate microwaves up to the terahertz...
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    addition of white light, the colorimetric purity, or the value of P, would be less than one. The purity of a spectral color stimulus can be altered by adding...
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    spaces such as CIELUV, a spectral color has maximal saturation. In Helmholtz coordinates, this is described as 100% purity. In dichromatic color vision...
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    because the only difference between them is their brightness, not their spectral purity. The chromaticity diagram illustrates a number of interesting properties...
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  • quality metrics for a VFO include frequency stability, phase noise and spectral purity. All of these factors tend to be inversely proportional to the tuning...
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    needed]". The colorfulness evoked by an object depends not only on its spectral reflectance but also on the strength of the illumination, and increases...
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    until LaserDisc was discontinued in 2009. List of laser types NIST Atomic Spectral Database Willet, C.S. (1974). An Introduction to Gas Lasers. Pergamon Press...
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  • Radiation (Lorentz polarization) Peak shape Crystallinity Disorder Defects Grain size Strain Stress Radiation (spectral purity) Geometry Beam Conditioning...
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    shown that red and white flowers pollinated by bees are of higher spectral purity as compared to bird-pollinated ones and are therefore easier to detect...
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  • mixer produces harmonics that adds complexity in applications where spectral purity of the VCO signal is important. The resulting unwanted (spurious) sidebands...
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    intersects with the line of purples and not the spectral locus, the complementary wavelength is used. The purity can then be calculated as defined here. The...
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    resonance energy transfer, where the large extinction coefficient and spectral purity of these fluorophores make them superior to molecular fluorophores...
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  • and its Signal-to-Noise-and-Distortion Ratio (SNDR). To recover the spectral purity of the converter, the proven solution consists of compensating these...
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  • regime. This approach does not require AOTF's and has a background-free spectral purity. Since both concepts have major importance for biophotonics the umbrella...
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    suppressing the diffuse ultraviolet reflectance, the directionality and spectral purity of the iridescence is heightened. In addition, the presence of the...
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    2024. Retrieved 16 April 2023. F. Bondu; et al. (1996). "Ultrahigh-spectral-purity laser for the VIRGO experiment". Optics Letters. 21 (8): 582–4. Bibcode:1996OptL...
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  • Conveniently, this works even if the source laser has low spectral purity since every sub-spectral component of the beamlet is mutually phase coherent with...
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    In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages...
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  • laser emission has high directionality (small solid angle ΔΩ) and spectral purity (narrow bands Δω). Lasers range far-infrared to X-rays/γ-rays regimes...
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    high instantaneous spectral power are used. Typical lasers being used include continuous-wave lasers with extremely high spectral purity and pulsed lasers...
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  • spontaneous emission of light-emitting diodes (LED) improving their spectral purity and directivity. Optical communication systems can perform much faster...
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    signal that most common spectrum analyzers measure is electrical; however, spectral compositions of other signals, such as acoustic pressure waves and optical...
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    magenta. Violet is closely associated with purple. In optics, violet is a spectral color (referring to the color of different single wavelengths of light)...
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    the spectrophotometer. The spectral bandwidth affects the resolution and accuracy of the measurement. A narrower spectral bandwidth provides higher resolution...
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  • a nature painter" and said that her use of casein had achieved a "spectral purity" in a landscape called "Green Composition". He also described her use...
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