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    An optical table is a vibration control platform that is used to support systems used for laser- and optics-related experiments in science, engineering...
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  • Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication...
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    The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns...
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    are two modes of operation, selected by switching the beam from one optical table to another. One mode is a spectrograph mode, using the TRIPPEL spectrograph...
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    to sharpen it, primarily due to complacency. Optical experiments should be carried out on an optical table with all laser beams travelling in the horizontal...
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    together in a rigid assembly. Optical systems built this way can be more compact than can be achieved using an optical table, and the system provides more...
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    An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
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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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    Optomechanics (category Optical devices)
    systems, such as: Optical tables, breadboards, and rails Mirror mounts Optical mounts Translation stages Rotary stage Optical fiber aligners Pedestals...
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  • the test environment made of: Testing hardware equipment (test bench, optical table, custom testing rig, dummy equipment as simulates an actual product...
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    Brassboard DIN rail Expansion spring Fahnestock clip Iterative design Optical table Description of the term breadboard Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback...
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    troposphere. The fundamental operations occur in its optical system composed of two optical tables holding the bulk of the apparatus. Results from the...
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    An optical disc is a flat, usually disc-shaped object that stores information in the form of physical variations on its surface that can be read with...
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    A halo (from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs) 'threshing floor, disk') is an optical phenomenon produced by light (typically from the Sun or Moon) interacting...
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    optical table with no image rotation correction and is therefore rarely used. The auxiliary telescopes can only be used for imaging on static optical...
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  • of media. In practice, it has been most widely used for DVDs and newer optical disc formats, supplanting ISO 9660. Due to its design, it is very well...
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    glucose and fructose, made by splitting disaccharide sucrose. This mixture's optical rotation is opposite to that of the original sugar, which is why it is...
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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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    version of the optical lattice clock. Early optical lattice clocks were confined to physics laboratories, often occupying several optical tables due to the...
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    is a table-top airport?". NDTV. 2010-05-23. Archived from the original on 2012-09-29. Retrieved 2010-05-23. "Tabletop runways create an optical illusion"...
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    equipment. Holography had been supposed to require a very expensive metal optical table set-up to lock all the involved elements down in place and damp any...
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    laser beams need precise steering mirrors. For prototyping optical systems on an optical table mirror mounts can be used to hold other elements besides...
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    An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes...
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    Shepard tables (also known as the Shepard tabletop illusion) are an optical illusion first published in 1990 as "Turning the Tables," by Stanford psychologist...
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  • Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text...
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    smaller high-power laser systems to be built on a typical laboratory optical table, as "table-top terawatt lasers". The work received the 2018 Nobel Prize in...
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    at the National Laboratories and had free-space beams on optical tables with discrete optical components such as beam-splitting pellicles, mirrors, quarter...
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  • Optical format is a hypothetical measurement approximately 50% larger than the true diagonal size of a solid-state photo sensor. The use of the optical...
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    In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as...
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  • Optical clocks are the most precise instruments ever developed. The precision of a clock is the smallest unit of time it can measure. Optical clocks reach...
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