optical pickup
1Optical pickups — are instrument pickups that use infrared light LEDs and photodetectors to sense the string vibration on a guitar or electric bass. Typically, electric guitars and bass guitars use magnetic pickups which can induce extraneous noise or magnetic hum …
2Pickup (music technology) — For phonograph pickup, see Magnetic cartridge. For other uses, see Pickup disambiguation page. Three magnetic pickups on a Peavey Raptor with the pickup configuration of a fat strat (H S S). The bridge (right) pickup is a humbucker and the neck… …
3Pickup (music) — A pickup device acts as a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations (usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar or electric violin) and converts them to an electrical signal, which… …
4Optical cavity — An optical cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors that forms a standing wave cavity resonator for light waves. Optical cavities are a major component of lasers, surrounding the gain medium and providing feedback of the laser… …
5Optical fiber — A bundle of optical fibers A TOSLINK fiber optic audio c …
6Optical disc drive — A CD/DVD ROM Drive A Blu ray (BD RE DL) writer tray in a Sony Vaio E series laptop …
7Optical feedback — Example 1. Optical feedback Example 2. Screenshots of optical feedback Optical feedback is the …
8pickup tube — noun : camera tube * * * Television. See camera tube. Also, pickup. [1930 35] * * * pickup tube, an electron beam tube for conversion of an optical image into an electric signal; camera tube …
9laser optical — System of recording on grooveless disks using a laser optical tracking pickup …
10television pickup tube — noun a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals • Syn: ↑television camera tube • Hypernyms: ↑tube, ↑vacuum tube, ↑thermionic vacuum tube, ↑thermionic tube, ↑electron tube, ↑ …
