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101Rocket engine — RS 68 being tested at NASA s Stennis Space Center. The nearly transparent exhaust is due to this engine s exhaust being mostly superheated steam (water vapor from its propellants, hydrogen and oxygen) …
102Coilgun — Gauss gun redirects here. For fictional weapons of this type, see electromagnetic projectile devices (fiction). Not to be confused with railgun. Simplified diagram of a multistage coilgun with three coils, a barrel, and a ferromagnetic projectile …
103Ultrashort pulse — In optics, an ultrashort pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is on the order of the femtosecond (10 − 15 second). Such pulses have a broadband optical spectrum, and can be created by mode locked oscillators. They are… …
104mass spectrometry — or mass spectroscopy Analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by sorting gaseous ions by mass using electric and magnetic fields. A mass spectrometer uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions, while a mass spectrograph …
105LULI — Laboratoire pour l Utilisation des Lasers IntensesLULI [ [http://www.luli.polytechnique.fr LULI webpage] ] is a scientific research laboratory specialised in the study of plasmas generated by laser matter interaction at high intensities and thei …
106Self-pulsation — takes place at the beginning of laser action.As the pump is switched on, the gainin the active medium rises and exceeds the steady state value. The number of photons in the cavity increases, depleting the gain below the steady state value, and so …
107welding — Technique for joining metallic parts, usually through the application of heat. Discovered in the 1st millennium AD during attempts to manipulate iron into useful shapes, the technique produced a strong, tough blade. Welding traditionally involved …
108Pulse forming network — A Pulse Forming Network (PFN) accumulates electrical energy over a comparatively long time, then releases the stored energy in the form of a relatively square pulse of comparatively short duration for various pulsed power applications. In… …
109Photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine — Photoacoustic imaging, as a hybrid biomedical imaging modality, is developed based on the photoacoustic effect. In photoacoustic imaging, non ionizing laser pulses are delivered into biological tissues (when radio frequency pulses are used, the… …
110optics — /op tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision. [1605 15; < ML optica < Gk optiká, n. use of neut. pl. of OPTIKÓS; see OPTIC,… …
