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41Power scaling — of a laser is increasing its output power without changing the geometry, shape, or principle of operation. Power scalability is considered an important advantage in a laser design.Usually, power scaling requires a more powerful pump source,… …
42Tunable laser — A tunable laser is a laser whose wavelength of operation can be altered in a controlled manner. While all laser gain media allow small shifts in output wavelength, only a few types of lasers allow continuous tuning over a significant wavelength… …
43Stimulated emission — In optics, stimulated emission is the process by which an electron, perturbed by a photon having the correct energy, may drop to a lower energy level resulting in the creation of another photon. The perturbing photon is seemingly unchanged in the …
44Q-switching — Q switching, sometimes known as giant pulse formation, is a technique by which a laser can be made to produce a pulsed output beam. The technique allows the production of light pulses with extremely high (gigawatt) peak power, much higher than… …
45Disk laser — Not to be confused with Laserdisc. Fig.1. An optically pumped disk laser (active mirror). A disk laser or active mirror (Fig.1.) is a type of solid state laser characterized by a heat sink and laser output that are realized on opposite sides of a …
46Optics — For the book by Sir Isaac Newton, see Opticks. Optical redirects here. For the musical artist, see Optical (artist). Optics includes study of dispersion of light. Optics is the branch of …
47Transparency and translucency — Diaphanes redirects here. For the genus of firefly, see Diaphanes (beetle). Translucence redirects here. For other uses, see Translucence (disambiguation). Translucent redirects here. For the Japanese manga series, see Translucent (manga).… …
48Glass — This article is about the material. For other uses, see Glass (disambiguation). Moldavite, a natural glass formed by meteorite impact, from Besednice, Bohemia …
49Amplificador óptico — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda En fibra óptica, un amplificador óptico es un dispositivo que amplifica una señal óptica directamente, sin la necesidad de convertir la señal al dominio eléctrico, amplificar en eléctrico y volver a pasar a óptico.… …
50Chalcogenide glass — A chalcogenide glass (hard ch as in chemistry ) is a glass containing one or more chalcogenide elements. These are Group 16 in the periodic table e.g. sulfur, selenium or tellurium. Such glasses are covalently bonded materials and may be… …
