optical amplifier
51John L. Hall — Infobox Scientist name = John Lewis Hall birth date = birth date and age|1934|8|21 birth place = Denver, Colorado, U.S. nationality = United States field = Physics work institution = University of Colorado, JILA, NIST alma mater = Carnegie… …
52Optoelectronics — Not to be confused with electro optics. Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that source, detect and control light, usually considered a sub field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms… …
53Fused quartz — A sphere manufactured by NASA out of fused quartz for use in a gyroscope in the Gravity Probe B experiment. It is one of the most accurate spheres ever created by humans, differing in shape from a perfect sphere by no more than 40 atoms of… …
54Lead glass — Swarovski flacon. Lead glass is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass.[1] Lead glass contains typically 18–40 weight% lead(II) oxide (PbO), while modern lead …
55Optofluidics — is research field using microfluidics and optics. While the idea of fluid optical devices can be traced back at least as far as the 18th century, and devices such as liquid mirror telescopes and dye lasers are relatively mature technologies,… …
56Bandwidth (signal processing) — Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of, for example, a filter, a communication channel, or a signal spectrum, and is typically measured in hertz. In case of a baseband channel or signal, the bandwidth is… …
57Materials science — Simulation of the outside of the Space Shuttle as it heats up to over 1,500 °C (2,730 °F) during re entry into the Earth s atmosphere Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of… …
58SOA — or SOA can stand for: NOTOC * Safe operating area, conditions for a semiconductor to work reliable * Secondary Organic Aerosol, a kind of atmospheric aerosols formed from reactions of organic compounds with oxidants. * Semiconductor optical… …
59CorningWare — …
60Cranberry glass — Vintage cranberry glass bowl Cranberry glass (or Gold Ruby glass as it is known in Europe, or Rubino Oro as it is known by glass workers) is a red glass made by adding gold(III) chloride to molten glass. Tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is… …
