• Optical axis gratings (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the...
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    In optics, a diffraction grating is an optical grating with a periodic structure that diffracts light, or another type of electromagnetic radiation, into...
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  • grating Bridge showing deck grating driving surface Walkway gratings at a power plant As optical elements, optical gratings are images having the characteristic...
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  • aperture off-axis optical system optical aberration optical amplifier optical axis optical axis gratings optical bench optical coating optical coherence...
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    A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of distributed Bragg reflector constructed in a short segment of optical fiber that reflects particular wavelengths...
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  • Optical holography is a technique which enables an optical wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating...
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    Bragg grating Fiber management system The Fiber Optic Association Gradient-index optics Leaky mode Modal bandwidth Optical mesh network Optical power...
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    Optics (redirect from Optical)
    as X-rays, microwaves, and radio waves exhibit similar properties. Most optical phenomena can be accounted for by using the classical electromagnetic description...
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    breakthroughs. In an optical vortex, light is twisted like a corkscrew around its axis of travel. Because of the twisting, the light waves at the axis itself cancel...
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  • diffraction grating at a larger angle with respect to the grating optical axis if the grating structure is finer.) For a sufficiently small pitch, only...
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    Gaussian beam on a virtual end mirror. Optical feedback Multiple-prism grating laser oscillator (or Multiple-prism grating laser cavity) Coupled mode theory...
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    and the pattern of G2 by using gratings with the same periodicity and inclining G2 against G1 regarding to the optical axis with a very small angle(<<1)...
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    {\displaystyle (E(t)+E(t-\tau ))^{2}} . Only the beam propagating on the optical axis, proportional to the cross-product E ( t ) E ( t − τ ) {\displaystyle...
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  • cylindrically symmetric gratings couple symmetric LP0m modes of the fiber. Microbend gratings, which are antisymmetric with respect to the fiber axis, create a resonance...
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    Ballistic photon Confocal microscopy Dual-axis optical coherence tomography Interferometry Intracoronary optical coherence tomography Leica Microsystems...
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    essentially light tight except on the eye's optic axis. In order, along the optic axis, the optical components consist of a first lens (the cornea—the...
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    Prism (optics) (redirect from Optical prism)
    An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light. At least one surface must be angled—elements...
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    Electromagnetically induced grating Magic wavelength Grimm, Rudolf; Weidemüller, Matthias; Ovchinnikov, Yurii B. (2000), "Optical Dipole Traps for Neutral...
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  • that is a diffraction grating or prism, a flow cell, to where the sample arrives directly from the chromatographic column, an optical bench of lenses and...
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    Traveling acoustic wave induces variations in optical properties, thus forming a dynamic volume grating. AOPDF is a programmable spectral filter. From...
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    European Photon Imaging Cameras (EPIC), two Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS), and an Optical Monitor. The spacecraft is roughly cylindrical in shape...
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    laser light by ultrasound (or sound in general) through an ultrasonic grating. In general, acousto-optic effects are based on the change of the refractive...
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    Foucault knife-edge test (category Optical devices)
    The testing device is adjustable along the X-axis (knife cut direction) across the Y-axis (optical axis), and is usually equipped with measurable adjustment...
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    by forcing all frequencies to propagate at a 90° with respect to the optical axis of the crystal. These methods are called temperature tuning and quasi-phase-matching...
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    Laser diode (category Optical diodes)
    lasing wavelength, a diffraction grating is etched close to the p–n junction of the diode. This grating acts like an optical filter, causing a single wavelength...
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    for example a Czerny–Turner design, with an optical detector placed at the output slit. As the grating in the monochromator moves, bands of different...
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  • wave path whose angle with respect to a straight line parallel to the optical axis is close to 0, this approximation condition can be further simplified...
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    2-dimensional diffraction grating it is possible to generate the configuration of laser beams required for a magneto-optical trap from a single laser beam...
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    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...
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    An ultrasonic grating is a type of diffraction grating produced by the interference of ultrasonic waves in a medium, which alters the physical properties...
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