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laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word ''laser'' originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radi ...
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3D printing
3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer ...
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Abnormal reflection
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Above-threshold ionization
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Absorption spectroscopy
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Accelerator physics
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Acoustic microscopy
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Acousto-optic deflector
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Acousto-optic modulator
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Acousto-optical spectrometer
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Acousto-optics
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Active laser medium
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Active optics
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Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System
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Advanced Tactical Laser
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Afocal system
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Airborne laser
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Airborne wind turbine
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Airy beam
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ALKA
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All gas-phase iodine laser
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Ambient ionization
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Amplified spontaneous emission
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Analytical chemistry
Analytical skill, Analytical chemistry studies and uses instruments and methods to Separation process, separate, identify, and Quantification (science), quantify matter. In practice, separation, identification or quantification may constitute t ...
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Aneutronic fusion
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Antiproton Decelerator
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Apache Arrowhead
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Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
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Arago spot
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Argon fluoride laser
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Argus laser
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Asterix IV laser
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Astrophysical maser
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Atmospheric-pressure laser ionization
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Atom interferometer
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Atom laser
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Atom probe
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Atomic clock
An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy levels. Electron states in an atom are associated with different energy levels, and in transitions betwee ...
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Atomic coherence
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Atomic fountain
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Atomic line filter
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Atomic ratio
The atomic ratio is a measure of the ratio of atoms of one kind (i) to another kind (j). A closely related concept is the atomic percent (or at.%), which gives the percentage of one kind of atom relative to the total number of atoms. The molecul ...
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Atomic spectroscopy
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Atomic vapor laser isotope separation
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Audience scanning
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Autler–Townes effect
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Autologous patient-specific tumor antigen response
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Automated guided vehicle
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Autonomous cruise control system
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Avalanche photodiode
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Axicon
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Babinet's principle
In physics, Babinet's principle states that the diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to that from an aperture (a hole in a screen) of the same size and shape except for the overall forward beam intensity. It was formulated in the ...
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Ballistic photon
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Bandwidth-limited pulse
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Bandwidth (signal processing)
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower Frequency, frequencies in a continuous Frequency band, band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of measurement, unit of hertz (symbol Hz).
It may refer more specifically to ...
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Barcode reader
A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an optical scanner that can read printed barcodes and send the data they contain to computer. Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens, and a light sensor for translating optical impul ...
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Basir
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Beam-powered propulsion
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Beam diameter
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Beam dump
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Beam expander
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Beam homogenizer
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Beam parameter product
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Beamz
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Big Bang Observer
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Biophotonics
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Biosensor
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Black silicon
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Blood irradiation therapy
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Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released worldwide on June 20, 2006, capable of storing several hours of ...
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Blue laser
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Boeing Laser Avenger
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Boeing NC-135
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Boeing YAL-1
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Bubblegram
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CLidar
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CALIPSO, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
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Calligraphic projection
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Calutron
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Carbon dioxide laser
The carbon-dioxide laser (CO2 laser) was one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed. It was invented by C. Kumar N. Patel, Kumar Patel of Bell Labs in 1964 and is still one of the most useful types of laser. Carbon dioxide, Carbon-dioxide lase ...
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Carrier generation and recombination
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Catastrophic optical damage
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Cauterization
Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undesired growth, o ...
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Cavity ring-down laser absorption spectroscopy
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Ceilometer
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Chaos in optical systems
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Chemical laser
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Chemical oxygen iodine laser
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Chirped mirror
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Chirped pulse amplification
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Clementine (spacecraft)
''Clementine'' (officially called the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE)) was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (previously the Strategic Defense Initiative, Strategic Defense Initiative Organ ...
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Cloud seeding
Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail, or disperse fog. The usual objective is to increase rain or snow, either for its own sake or to prevent precipitation from ...
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Coherence (physics)
Coherence expresses the potential for two waves to Wave interference, interfere. Two Monochromatic radiation, monochromatic beams from a single source always interfere. Wave sources are not strictly monochromatic: they may be ''partly coherent''. ...
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Coherence length
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Coherence time
For an electromagnetic wave, the coherence time is the time over which a propagating wave (especially a laser or maser beam) may be considered coherent, meaning that its phase is, on average, predictable.
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Coherent addition
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Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy
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Coherent backscattering
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Coherent perfect absorber, anti-laser
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Coherent spectroscopy
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Collimator
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Colloidal crystal
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Color LaserWriter
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Color engraving
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Common Infrared Countermeasures program
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CD player
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital audio, digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such a ...
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Compatible Toner Cartridge
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Computed tomography laser mammography
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Computer Output to Laser Disc
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Confocal laser scanning microscopy
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Confocal microscopy
Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast (vision), contrast of a micrograph by me ...
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Containment field
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Continuous scan laser Doppler vibrometry
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Continuous wave
A continuous wave or continuous waveform (CW) is an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, typically a sine wave, that for mathematical analysis is considered to be of infinite duration. It may refer to e.g. a laser or particl ...
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Coordinate-measuring machine
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Copper vapor laser
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Core/Shell Semiconductor Nanocrystals
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Corneal Waveform technology
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Coupling parameter
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Crystal oven
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Cyclic ozone
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Cyclops laser
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Dark state
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David Laserscanner
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Dazer Laser
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Dazzler (weapon)
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Defence Research and Development Organisation
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Delayed extraction
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Dental laser
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Detonator
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Diamond anvil cell
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Diamond blade
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Diamond enhancement
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Diamond turning
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Dichroic filter
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Dielectric mirror
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Diffractive beam splitter
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Digital holographic microscopy
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is digital holography applied to microscopy. Digital holographic microscopy distinguishes itself from other microscopy methods by not recording the projected image of the object. Instead, the light wave front ...
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Diode-pumped solid-state laser
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Dipole trap
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Direct laser lithography
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Direct metal laser sintering
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Directed-energy weapon
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include ...
[Air University Research Template: "NON-LETHAL WEAPONS: SETTING OUR PHASERS ON STUN? Potential Strategic Blessings and Curses of Non-Lethal Weapons on the Battlefield"; Erik L. Nutley, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF; August 2003; Occasional Paper No. 34; Center for Strategy and Technology; Air War College; Air University; Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama; PG1]
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Disk laser
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Dispersive prism
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Distributed Bragg reflector
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Distributed acoustic sensing
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Distributed feedback laser
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Distributed temperature sensing
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Dopant
A dopant (also called a doping agent) is a small amount of a substance added to a material to alter its physical properties, such as electrical or optics, optical properties. The amount of dopant is typically very low compared to the material b ...
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Doppler cooling limit
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Double-clad fiber
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Double-density compact disc
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Double-slit experiment
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Dual polarization interferometry
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Dumpy level
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Dye laser
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Dynamic Laser Cruise Control
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Dynamic light scattering
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Electric spark
An electric spark is an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an Ionization, ionized, Electric current, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium, often air or other ga ...
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Electro-absorption modulator
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Electro-optic modulator
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Electrolaser
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Electromagnetic radiation
In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space. It encompasses a broad spectrum, classified by frequency or its inverse, wavelength ...
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Electromagnetically induced grating
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Electromagnetically induced transparency
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Electronic countermeasure
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Electronic speckle pattern interferometry
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Electrophoretic light scattering
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Electrophotography
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Electrostatic-sensitive device
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Encircled energy
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Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology
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Endovenous laser treatment
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Energy transfer upconversion
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Enriched uranium
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Er:glass laser
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European x-ray free electron laser
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Evolutionary Air and Space Global Laser Engagement
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Excimer laser
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Extensometer
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Extinction cross
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Extinction ratio
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Extreme Light Infrastructure
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Extreme ultraviolet
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Extreme ultraviolet lithography
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Eye surgery
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Eye testing using speckle
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FILAT, Forward-looking Infrared and Laser Attack Targeting
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FLASH
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FROG
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...
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Fabrication (metal)
Metal fabrication is the creation of metal structures by cutting, bending and assembling processes. It is a value-added process involving the creation of machines, parts, and structures from various raw materials.
Typically, a fabrication shop ...
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Fabry–Pérot interferometer
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Far-infrared laser
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Fast atom bombardment
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Femtosecond Lenticule EXtraction
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Femtosecond laser intrastromal vision correction
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Femtosecond pulse shaping
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Fiber Bragg grating
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Fiber disk laser
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Fiber laser
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Fibre optic gyroscope
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Field-Map
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Figure-8 laser
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Filament propagation
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Fire-and-forget
Fire-and-forget is a type of missile guidance which does not require further external intervention after launch such as illumination of the target or wire guidance, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line-of-sight of the tar ...
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Firearm microstamping
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Fixed-point laser sensors
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Flash photolysis
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Flashtube
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Flow cytometry
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Fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy
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Fluorescence spectroscopy
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Forced Rayleigh scattering
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Fourier domain mode locking
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4Pi microscope, a laser scanning fluorescence microscope
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Frame-dragging
Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Albert Einstein's General relativity, general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions of mass–energy. A stationary Field (physics), field is one that is ...
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Fraunhofer diffraction
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Free-electron laser
A free-electron laser (FEL) is a fourth generation light source producing extremely brilliant and short pulses of radiation. An FEL functions much as a laser but employs relativistic electrons as a active laser medium, gain medium instead of using ...
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Free-space optical communication
Free-space optical communication (FSO) is an optical communication technology that uses light propagating in free space to wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications or computer networking over long distances. "Free space" means air, oute ...
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Frequency Addition Source of Optical Radiation
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Frequency agility
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Frequency comb
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Frequency-resolved optical gating
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Fuser
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Fusion power
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Fusion splicing
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GBU-44/B Viper Strike
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GEKKO XII
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GRENOUILLE
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Gain-switching
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Gain (lasers)
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Galvanometer
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Gamma ray laser
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Gamut
In color reproduction and colorimetry, a gamut, or color gamut , is a convex set containing the colors that can be accurately represented, i.e. reproduced by an output device (e.g. printer or display) or measured by an input device (e.g. cam ...
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Gas centrifuge
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Gas dynamic laser
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Gas laser
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Gaser, Gamma Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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Gaussian beam
In optics, a Gaussian beam is an idealized beam of electromagnetic radiation whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian function; this also implies a Gaussian intensity (irradiance) profile. This fundamental (or ...
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Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
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Glan–laser prism
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Goniometer
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Grating-eliminated no-nonsense observation of ultrafast incident laser light e-fields, GRENOUILLE
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Grating light valve
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Gravitational wave
Gravitational waves are oscillations of the gravitational field that Wave propagation, travel through space at the speed of light; they are generated by the relative motion of gravity, gravitating masses. They were proposed by Oliver Heaviside i ...
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Gravitational wave detector
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Gravity laser
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Guidance system
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Guided Advanced Tactical Rocket – Laser
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HDSS
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HD DVD
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HELRAM
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HP LaserJet
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Handheld projector
A handheld projector (also known as a pocket projector, mobile projector, pico projector or mini beamer) is an image projector in a handheld device. It was developed as a computer display device for compact portable devices such as mobile ph ...
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Hateruma class patrol vessel
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Heat-affected zone
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Heat treating
Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are al ...
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Helium–neon laser
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Heterodyne
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Heterojunction
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HiPER
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High-altitude wind power
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High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System
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High Harmonic Generation
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Holographic Versatile Disc
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Holographic grating
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Holographic weapon sight
A holographic weapon sight or holographic diffraction sight is a non-magnification, magnifying gunsight that allows the user to look through a glass optical window and see a holographic reticle image superimposed at a distance on the field of view. ...
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Holography
Holography is a technique that allows a wavefront to be recorded and later reconstructed. It is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional images, and has a wide range of other uses, including data storage, microscopy, and interfe ...
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Holometer
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Homodyne detection
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Homogeneous broadening
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Horizon Laser Vision Center Classic
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Hybrid silicon laser
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Hydrodynamic focusing
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Hydrogen fluoride laser
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Hydroxyl tagging velocimetry
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Ion laser
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Janus laser
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KALI (laser)
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Kerr-lens modelocking
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Kerr effect
The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro-optic (QEO) effect, is a change in the refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric field. The Kerr effect is distinct from the Pockels effect in that the induced index chan ...
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Keyence
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Krasnopol (Weapon)
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Krypton fluoride laser
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LAM, Laser Assisted Myringotomy
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LANTIRN,
Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night
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LARES (satellite)
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LCA-Vision
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LCGT
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LED printer
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LFA, Laser flash analysis
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LIDAR
Lidar (, also LIDAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranging, ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected li ...
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LIDAR speed gun
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LISA Pathfinder
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LITENING targeting pod
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LLM01
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LOMAK, Light Operated Mouse And Keyboard
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LT PGB
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LULI
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LULI2000
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LaSer UK
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Laboratory for Laser Energetics
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Laminated object manufacturing
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word ''laser'' originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radi ...
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Laser-assisted new attachment procedure
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Laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
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Laser-doppler flowmetry
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Laser-guided bomb
A laser-guided bomb (LGB) is a guided bomb that uses semi-active laser guidance to strike a designated target with greater accuracy than an unguided bomb. First developed by the United States during the Vietnam War, laser-guided bombs quickly pro ...
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Laser-heated pedestal growth
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Laser-hybrid welding
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
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Laser-induced fluorescence
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Laser ablation
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Laser ablation electrospray ionization
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Laser ablation synthesis in solution
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Laser absorption spectrometry
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Laser accelerometer
A laser accelerometer is an accelerometer that uses a laser to measure changes in velocity/direction.
Mechanism
It employs a frame with three orthogonal input axes and multiple proof masses. Each proof mass has a predetermined blanking surface. ...
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Laser acronyms
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Laser aiming module
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Laser airborne depth sounder
The Laser Airborne Depth Sounder (LADS) Flight was a unit of the Royal Australian Navy. Unlike the rest of the flying units of the RAN, it was not controlled by the Fleet Air Arm (RAN), Fleet Air Arm from , but instead fell under the operational co ...
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Laser Arena
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Laser assisted parking
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Laser beam divergence
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Laser beam machining
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Laser beam profiler
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Laser beam quality
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Laser beam riding
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Laser blended vision
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Laser bridge
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Laser broom
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Laser camera system
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Laser cannon
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Laser cautery
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Laser coagulation
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Laser communication
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Laser construction
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Laser converting
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Laser cooling
Laser cooling includes several techniques where atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems are cooled with laser light. The directed energy of lasers is often associated with heating materials, e.g. laser cutting, so it can be counterintuit ...
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Laser crystal
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Laser cutting
Laser cutting is a technology that uses a laser to vaporize materials, resulting in a cut edge. While typically used for industrial manufacturing applications, it is now used by schools, small businesses, architecture, and hobbyists. Laser cutt ...
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Laser dazzler
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Laser designator
A laser designator is a laser light source which is used to designate a target. Laser designators provide targeting for laser-guided bombs, missiles, or precision artillery munitions, such as the Paveway series of bombs, AGM-114 Hellfire ...
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Laser Design, Inc.
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Laser detector Lidar has a wide range of applications; one use is in Traffic enforcement camera, traffic enforcement and in particular speed limit enforcement, has been gradually replacing radar gun, radar since 2000. Current devices are designed to automate the ...
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Laser detuning
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Laser diffraction analysis
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Laser diode
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Laser diode rate equations
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Laser Doppler velocimetry
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Laser Doppler vibrometer
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Laser drilling
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Laser dynamic range imager
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Laser Electrical
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Laser engraving
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Laser extensometer
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Laser eye surgery
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Laser fence
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Laser flash analysis
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Laser Focus World
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Laser fusion
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Laser Geodynamics Satellites,
LAGEOS
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Laser Ghost
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Laser glass sculpture
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Laser guidance[
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Laser guide star A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light (called '' astronomical seeing''). Adaptive optics ...
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Laser guns
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Laser hair removal
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Laser harp
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Laser heater
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Laser imaging
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Laser inertial fusion energy
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Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,
LIGO
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Laser injection
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Laser integration line
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Laser keyboard
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Laser level
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Laser levitation
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Laser light show (Grand Coulee Dam)
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Laser light shows
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Laser line level
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Laser linewidth
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Laser lithotripsy
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Laser machine control
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Laser medicine
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Laser Mégajoule
Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device near Bordeaux, France, built by the French nuclear science directorate, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA).
Laser Mégajoule plans to deliver ...
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Laser melting
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Laser mouse
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Laser microjet
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Laser microphone
A laser microphone is a surveillance device that uses a laser beam to detect sound vibrations in a distant object. It can be used to eavesdrop with minimal chance of exposure.
The object is typically inside a room where a conversation is taking pl ...
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Laser microprobe mass spectrometry
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Laser microscopy
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Laser mode
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Laser oscillation
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Laser photoplotter
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Laser pistol Laser pistol may refer to:
* Raygun, a science fiction weapon
* Laser pistol (sport), a discipline in some combine sports
* Laser weapon
A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they wil ...
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Laser plasma acceleration
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Laser pointer
A laser pointer or laser pen is a (typically battery-powered) handheld device that uses a laser diode to emit a narrow low-power visible laser beam (i.e. Coherence (physics), coherent light) to highlight something of interest with a small brigh ...
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Laser power beaming
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Laser printer
Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly passing a laser beam back and forth over a Electric charge, negatively charged cylinder call ...
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Laser propulsion
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Laser protection eyewear
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Laser Radial
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Laser radial keratotomy
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Laser rangefinder
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Laser rapid manufacturing
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Laser reflecting goniometer
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Laser resurfacing
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Laser rot
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Laser safety
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Laser scalpel
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Laser scanner
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Laser scanning
Laser scanning is the controlled Deflection (physics), deflection of laser beams, visible or invisible.
Scanned laser beams are used in some 3-D printers, in rapid prototyping, in machines for material processing, in laser engraving machines, i ...
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Laser science
Laser science or laser physics is a branch of optics that describes the theory and practice of lasers.
Laser science is principally concerned with quantum electronics, laser construction, optical cavity design, the physics of producing a popula ...
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Laser Science and Technology Centre
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Laser shaft alignment
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Laser shock
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Laser sight
A laser sight is a device attached or integral to a firearm to aid target acquisition. Unlike Telescopic sight, optical and Iron sights, iron Sight (device), sights where the user looks through the device to aim at the target, laser sights projec ...
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Laser snow
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Laser soldering
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Laser speckle
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Laser spectroscopy
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Laser spray ionization
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Laser Stratos
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Laser surface velocimeter
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Laser survey
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Laser sword
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Laser table
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Laser tag
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Laser thermal keratoplasty
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Laser thermometer
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Laser trackers
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Laser trimming
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Laser turntable
A laser turntable (or optical turntable) is a phonograph that plays standard LP records (and other gramophone records) using laser beams as the Phonograph cartridge, pickup instead of using a Phonograph#Stylus, stylus as in conventional phonograp ...
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Laser tweezer
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Laser vaginal rejuvenation
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Laser video display
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Laser video projector
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Laser voltage prober
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Laserblast
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Laserdisc
LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium. It was developed by Philips, Pioneer Corporation, Pioneer, and the movie studio MCA Inc., MCA. The format was initially marketed in the United State ...
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Laserfection
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Laserfilm
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LaserLock
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LaserMotive
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LaserScope
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Lasgun
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LASIK
LASIK or Lasik (; "laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis"), commonly referred to as laser eye surgery or laser vision correction, is a type of refractive surgery for the correction of myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. LASIK surgery is p ...
(laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis)
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Lasing threshold
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Laspistol
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Light
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be visual perception, perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum and is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400– ...
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (corre ...
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LightScribe
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Light beam
A light beam or beam of light is a directional projection of light energy radiating from a light source. Sunlight forms a light beam (a sunbeam) when filtered through media such as clouds, foliage, or windows. To artificially produce a li ...
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Light dressed state
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Light gun
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Light induced voltage alteration
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Light pulse generator
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Light therapy
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Lightcraft
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Lightning
Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...
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Line laser
A line laser is a device that employs a laser and an optical lens to project the laser beam as a line rather than a point (e.g. laser pointer). This may be achieved by passing the beam through a cylindrical lens or a Powell lens.
Depending on the ...
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Liposuction
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Liquid crystal
Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as i ...
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Liquid crystal laser
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List of laser applications
Many scientific, military, medical and commercial laser applications have been developed since the invention of the laser in 1958. The coherence (physics), coherency, high monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high Radiant flux, powers ...
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List of laser types
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List of petawatt lasers
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Lloyd's mirror
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Lockheed Martin Sniper XR
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Logitech VX Revolution
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Long path laser
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Longitudinal mode
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Low-angle laser light scattering
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Low level laser therapy
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Lunar Laser Ranging experiment
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) is the practice of measuring Lunar distance (astronomy), the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using Lidar, laser ranging. The distance can be calculated from the Round-trip delay, round-trip time ...
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Lyot filter
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MALDI imaging
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MEMS magnetic field sensor
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MESSENGER
Messenger, Messengers, The Messenger or The Messengers may refer to:
People
* Courier, a person or company that delivers messages, packages, or mail
* Messenger (surname)
* Bicycle messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities
* M ...
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MIRACL
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M squared
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Madison Symmetric Torus
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Magnetized target fusion
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Magneto-optic Kerr effect
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Magneto-optical drive
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Magneto-optical trap
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Manipulation of atoms by optical field
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Mars Global Surveyor
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Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter
image:PIA02040 Martian hemispheres by MOLA.jpg, 260px, MOLA topographic images of the two hemispheres of Mars. This image appeared on the cover of ''Science'' magazine in May 1999.
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) was one of five instruments ...
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Marvin (robot)
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Maser
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization
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McCumber relation
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Megamaser
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Mercury laser
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Metal aromaticity
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Michelson interferometer
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Microplasma
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Microprobe
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Microscale thermophoresis
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Mirror
A mirror, also known as a looking glass, is an object that Reflection (physics), reflects an image. Light that bounces off a mirror forms an image of whatever is in front of it, which is then focused through the lens of the eye or a camera ...
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Mirror galvanometer
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Mirror mount
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Missile guidance
Missile guidance refers to a variety of methods of guiding a missile or a guided bomb to its intended target. The missile's target accuracy is a critical factor for its effectiveness. Guidance systems improve missile accuracy by improving its P ...
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Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser
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Mode-locking
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Mode coupling
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Mode scrambler
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Modulating retro-reflector
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Molecular laser isotope separation
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Molecular tagging velocimetry
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Monochromator
A monochromator is an optics, optical device that transmits a mechanically selectable narrow band of wavelengths of light or other radiation chosen from a wider range of wavelengths available at the input. The name is .
Uses
A device that can ...
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Moore's law
Moore's law is the observation that the Transistor count, number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and Forecasting, projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of ...
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Mosquito laser
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Motion detection
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Multiangle light scattering
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Multifocal multiphoton microscopy
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Multiphase topology optimisation
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Multiphoton intrapulse interference phase scan
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Multiple-prism dispersion theory
The first description of multiple-prism arrays, and multiple-prism dispersion, was given by Isaac Newton in his book '' Opticks,'' also introducing prisms as beam expanders. Prism pair expanders were introduced by David Brewster in 1813. A modern ...
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Multiple-prism grating laser oscillator
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Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System
N
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N-slit interferometer
The ''N''-slit interferometer is an extension of the double-slit experiment, double-slit interferometer also known as Young's double-slit interferometer. One of the first known uses of ''N''-slit arrays in optics was illustrated by Isaac Newton, Ne ...
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N-slit interferometric equation
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NRLMSISE-00
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Nanoimpellers
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Nanolaser
A nanolaser is a laser that has Nanoscopic scale, nanoscale dimensions and it refers to a micro-/nano- device which can emit light with light or electric excitation of nanowires or other nanomaterials that serve as resonators. A standard feature of ...
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Nanoneedle
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Nanosecond
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Nanosight
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National Ignition Facility
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Nd:YAG laser
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Nd:glass laser
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NeXT Laser Printer
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Near-field scanning optical microscope
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Negative temperature
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Neutral density filter
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Newton's flaming laser sword
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Nicoll-Dyson Laser
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Nike laser
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Nitrogen laser
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Noble gas
The noble gases (historically the inert gases, sometimes referred to as aerogens) are the members of Group (periodic table), group 18 of the periodic table: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn) and, in some ...
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Noise-immune cavity-enhanced optical heterodyne molecular spectroscopy
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Non-ionizing radiation
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Nonlinear optics
Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in Nonlinearity, nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light. The non-linearity ...
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Novette laser
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Nuclear fusion-fission hybrid
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Nuclear photonic rocket
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Nuclear pumped laser
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Numerical aperture
In optics, the numerical aperture (NA) of an optical system is a dimensionless number that characterizes the range of angles over which the system can accept or emit light. By incorporating index of refraction in its definition, has the property ...
O
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OMAC Laser 300
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Open fiber control
In telecommunication, Open fiber control is a protocol to ensure that both ends of a fiber-optic cable are connected before laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated ...
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Optical Express
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Optical amplifier
An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a laser without an optical cavity, or one in which feedback fro ...
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Optical autocorrelation
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Optical beam dump
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Optical beam induced current
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Optical bistability
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Optical cavity
An optical cavity, resonating cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors or other optical elements that confines light waves similarly to how a cavity resonator confines microwaves. Optical cavities are a major component of lasers, ...
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Optical coherence tomography
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Optical cross section
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Optical decay
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Optical dilatometer
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Optical disc drive
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Optical downconverter
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Optical feedback
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Optical heterodyne detection
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Optical imaging
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Optical interferometry
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Optical lattice
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Optical lift
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Optical media preservation
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Optical microcavity
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Optical modulation amplitude
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Optical modulator
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Optical molasses
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Optical parametric amplifier
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Optical parametric oscillator
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Optical power budget
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Optical pumping
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Optical recording
The history of optical recording can be divided into a few number of distinct major contributions. The pioneers of optical recording worked mostly independently, and their solutions to the
many technical challenges have very distinctive features, s ...
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Optical ring resonators
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Optical storage
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Optical table
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Optical tape
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Optical train
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Optical tweezers
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Optimax
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Optimized Power Control
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Orbiter Boom Sensor System
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Organic photorefractive materials
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Ormosil
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Oscillator linewidth
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Output coupler
P
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PDLCT
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PITZ
* PVLAS
* Particle-size distribution
* Particle accelerator
* Particle counter
* Particle image velocimetry
* Particle tracking velocimetry
* Pascal Photocoagulator
* Paser
* Pauli exclusion principle
* Pave Spike
* Pave Tack
* Paveway
* Penning trap
* Peresvet (laser weapon), Peresvet
* Personnel Detection Device
* Peter Harrison Planetarium, is a 120-seat digital laser planetarium
* Phased-array optics
* PHASR, Personnel halting and stimulation response rifle
* Phoenix (spacecraft)
* Photoablation
* Photoconductive atomic force microscopy
* Photodarkening
* Photodissociation
* Photodynamic therapy
* Photoelectrochemical processes
* Photoemission spectroscopy
* Photoflash capacitor
* Photofragment-ion imaging
* Photoionization mode
* Photolithography
* Photomixing
* Photon
* Photon Doppler velocimetry
* Photon antibunching
* Photonic-crystal fiber
* Photonic force microscope
* Photonic integrated circuit
* Photonics
* Photonics Spectra
* Photophoresis
* Photoplotter
* Photorefractive effect
* Photothermal effect
* Photothermal spectroscopy
* Planar Doppler velocimetry
* Planar laser-induced fluorescence
* Planetarium projector
* Plasma Acoustic Shield System
* Plasma acceleration
* Plasma channel
* Plasma cutting
* Plasma stealth
* Plasma weapon
* Plastic surgery
* Platesetter
* Plymouth Laser
* Point-to-point laser technology (PPLT)
* Polariton laser
* Polarization ripples
* Polyus (spacecraft)
* Ponderomotive energy
* Population inversion
* Potassium titanyl phosphate
* Pound–Drever–Hall technique
* Power scaling
* Precision-guided munition
* Precision bombing
* Precrash system
* Printed circuit board
* Prism coupler
* Projection keyboard
* Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons
* Pulsed laser
* Pulse repetition frequency
* Pulsed Energy Projectile, Pulsed Impulsive Kill Laser
* Pulsed laser deposition
* Pulsed power
* Pursuit guidance
Q
* Q-switching
* Q factor
* Quantapoint
* Quantum amplifier
* Quantum cascade laser
* Quantum clock
* Quantum defect
* Quantum dot
* Quantum dot laser
* Quantum heterostructure
* Quantum imaging
* Quantum limit
* Quantum noise
* Quantum tomography
* Quantum well
* Quantum well laser
* Quenching (fluorescence)
R
* Radar
* Radar detector
* Radar gun
* Radial polarization
* Rail inspection
* Rainbow hologram
* Raman cooling
* Raman laser
* Raman microscope
* Raman scattering
* Random laser
* Range imaging
* Rangefinder
* Rare-earth element
* RAVE (survey), Rave
* Ray transfer matrix analysis
* Raygun
* Rayleigh length
* Reciprocity (photography)
* Recoil temperature
* Reference beam
* Reflectron
* Refrigeration
* Regenerative amplification
* Relative fluorescence units
* Relative intensity noise
* Relativistic electron beam
* Relativistic heat conduction
* Relativistic similarity parameter
* Resolution enhancement technology
* Resolved sideband cooling
* Resonance Raman spectroscopy
* Resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization
* Ring laser
* Ring laser gyroscope
* Rocket-assisted projectile
* Roketsan Cirit
* Ruby laser
* Rydberg ionization spectroscopy
* Rydberg molecule
* Rydberg state
* Rytov number
S
* SCALPEL, Small Contained-Area Laser Precision Energetic Load
* SEAgel
* SWEEPNIK
* Sagnac effect
* SASER, Sound Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
* Satellite geodesy
* Satellite laser ranging
* Saturated absorption
* Saturated spectroscopy
* Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy
* Scanning voltage microscopy
* Scattering from rough surfaces
* Second-harmonic generation
* Second-harmonic imaging microscopy
* Security seal
* Selective laser melting
* Selective laser sintering
* Self-amplified stimulated emission
* Self-focusing
* Self-mixing interferometry
* Self-phase modulation
* Self-pulsation
* Semiconductor ring laser
* Sensor based sorting
* Serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM)
* Shearography
* Shielding gas
* Shiva laser
* Shtora
* Sight (device)
* Signal beam
* Silex Process
* Sim scanner
* Single photon sources
* Sisyphus cooling
* Sisyphus effect
* Skin whitening
* Skyguard (airport defense system)
* Slapper detonator
* Slope efficiency
* Smith–Purcell effect
* Smoke detector
* Smoke screen
* Sniper
* Soft-tissue laser surgery
* Soft laser desorption
* Solar-pumped laser
* Solar sail
* Solid-state laser
* Solid-state dye laser
* Soviet laser pistol
* Space-based solar power
* Space debris
* Spaser, Surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
* Spatial filter
* Spatial light modulator
* Spatially Encoded Arrangement for SPIDER
* Speckle pattern
* Spectrometer
* Spectroscopy
* Speed limit enforcement
* Spontaneous emission
* Stage lighting
* Starfire Optical Range
* Starstreak (missile)
* Static light scattering
* Stealth aircraft
* Stealth technology
* Stereoscopy
* Stimulated emission
* Strainmeter
* Strategic Defense Initiative
* Streamlight
* Strong confinement limit
* Strontium vapor laser
* Structured-light 3D scanner
* Sum-frequency generation
* Sum frequency generation spectroscopy
* Super resolution microscopy
* Supercontinuum
* Supercritical angle fluorescence microscopy
* Superluminescent diode
* Superradiance
* Surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization
* Surround optical-fiber immunoassay (SOFIA)
* SwissFEL
* Synchrotron light source
* Synthetic aperture radar
* Synthetic diamond
T
* TEA laser
* TIALD, Thermal Imaging Airborne Laser Designator Pod
* Tactical High Energy Laser
* Tactical light
* Talbot cavity
* Targeting (warfare)
* Targeting pods
* Taser
* Terahertz radiation
* Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
* Terra-3
* Tetracene
* Theatrical smoke and fog
* Theodolite
* Thermal blooming
* Thermal laser stimulation
* Thermal shock parameter in the physics of solid-state lasers
* Thermopile laser sensor
* Thin film
* Three-level laser
* Ti-sapphire laser, Ti:sapphire laser
* Time-of-flight camera
* Time-of-flight mass spectrometry
* Time-resolved spectroscopy
* Time of flight
* Titan laser
* Toda oscillator
* Toner (printing)
* Toner cartridge
* Toner refill
* Tophat beam
* Trabeculoplasty
* Track and trace
* Transistor laser
* Transoral laser microsurgery
* Transparency and translucency
* Transparent ceramics
* Transverse mode
* TriDAR
* Trident laser
* Trotec
* Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
* Tunable laser
* Turbulent diffusion
* Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
* Two-photon absorption
* Two-photon excitation microscopy
* Type 87 Chu-MAT
U
* Ultra Density Optical disk format
* Ultracold atom
* Ultrafast laser spectroscopy
* Ultrafast monochromator
* Ultralase
* Ultrashort pulse
* Ultrashort pulse laser
* Ultrasonic flow meter
* Ultraviolet
* Undulator
V
* VORPAL
* VTech Laser 200
* Vector soliton fiber laser with atomic layer graphene
* Veiling-glare laser
* Verdet constant
* Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser
* Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-laser
* Videodisc
* Videometer
* Virgo interferometer
* Visotek
* Volume hologram
* Vulcan laser
W
* Wall-plug efficiency
* Warm dense matter
* Waveguide (optics)
* Wavelength-division multiplexing
* Weapon effects simulation
* Wideband materials
* Wireless energy transfer
X
* X-ray
* X-ray laser
* Xenon chloride laser
* Xerox
Y
* Yb:LuVO4
Z
* ZETA (fusion reactor)
* ZEUS-HLONS (HMMWV Laser Ordnance Neutralization System)
* Zeeman slower
* Zerona
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