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1Optical tweezers — (originally called single beam gradient force trap ) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically on the order of piconewtons), depending on the refractive index mismatch… …
2Optical fiber — A bundle of optical fibers A TOSLINK fiber optic audio c …
3Optical power margin — In an optical communications link, the optical power margin is the difference between the optical power that is launched by a given transmitter into the fiber, less transmission losses from all causes, and the minimum optical power that is… …
4Optical power budget — The optical power budget in a fiber optic communication link is the allocation of available optical power (launched into a given fiber by a given source) among various loss producing mechanisms such as launch coupling loss, fiber attenuation,… …
5Optical power meter — in use An optical power meter (OPM) is a device used to measure the power in an optical signal. The term usually refers to a device for testing average power in fiber optic systems. Other general purpose light power measuring devices are usually… …
6Optical interferometry — combines two or more light waves in an optical instrument in such a way that interference occurs between them. Early interferometers used white light sources and also monochromatic light from atomic sources (e.g., Young s double slit experiment… …
7Optical coherence tomography — Intervention Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image of a sarcoma MeSH …
8Optical heterodyne detection — is an important special case of heterodyne detection. In heterodyne detection, a signal of interest at some frequency is non linearly mixed with a reference local oscillator (LO) that is set at a close by frequency. The desired outcome is the… …
9Optical mark recognition — (also called Optical Mark Reading and OMR) is the process of capturing human marked data from document forms such as surveys and tests. Contents 1 OMR background 2 OMR software 2.1 Open Source …
10Optical IP Switching — (OIS), is a novel method of creating transparent optical connections between network nodes using a flow based approach. An IP flow is a collection of IP packets going from the same source to the same destination: the exchange of IP packets is the …
