Keywords beginning with F
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "F". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter F)
f–2f interferometer → frequency combs
fabrication of optical fibers → fiber fabrication
Faraday isolators:
→ Spotlight 2010-06-09: Poor man's isolator
fast absorbers → saturable absorbers
fast axis → diode bars
fast light → superluminal transmission
faster than light → superluminal transmission
F-centers → color centers
femtosecond fiber lasers → mode-locked fiber lasers
femtosecond lasers:
→ Solid state lasers for ultrashort pulses – a diverse family
femtosecond pulse amplifiers → ultrafast amplifiers
ferroelectric domain engineering → periodic poling
few-cycle pulses → ultrashort pulses
fiber amplifiers:
→ Case study: erbium-doped fiber amplifier
→ Case study: pulse amplification in a fiber amplifier
→ Fiber Amplifiers – a technology for many applications
→ Modeling multi-stage amplifiers with RP Fiber Power
→ Pulse amplification in the steady state
→ Spotlight 2007-07-30: Fiber amplifiers: stronger ASE in backward direction
→ Transverse dependencies in fiber amplifier and laser modeling
→ Tutorial on Fiber Amplifiers
→ Tutorial on Modeling of Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers
fiber Bragg gratings:
→ Case study: mode coupling in a fiber Bragg grating
→ Case study: mode coupling in a fiber Bragg grating
fiber connectors:
→ Tutorial chapter on accessories and tools for optical fibers
fiber couplers:
→ Case study: fused fiber coupler
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber couplers
fiber coupling stages → fiber launch systems
fiber drawing towers → fiber fabrication
fiber end caps → core-less end caps
fiber ends:
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber ends
fiber joints:
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber joints
fiber lasers:
→ Spotlight 2008-06-06: Fiber lasers which are no fiber lasers
→ Spotlight 2011-02-10: Fiber lasers: more difficult to design than bulk lasers
→ Tutorial on Modeling of Fiber Amplifiers and Lasers
fiber lasers versus bulk lasers
fiber manufacturing → fiber fabrication
fiber modes:
→ Case study: calculation of the modes of a germanosilicate fiber
→ Spotlight 2006-10-04: Higher-order modes of fibers: a solution for single-mode guidance with large mode area?
→ Spotlight 2008-04-15: Abused photonics terms: modes
→ Spotlight 2014-07-28: How to define the mode radius of a fiber?
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber modes
fiber modes → fibers
fiber nonlinearities:
→ Spotlight 2010-03-03: Thresholds for nonlinear effects in fiber amplifiers
→ Spotlight 2010-03-09: Nonlinearities in fiber amplifier modeling
→ Tutorial chapter on nonlinearities of optical fibers
fiber optics:
→ Tutorial on Passive Fiber Optics
fiber optics::
→ Field Guide to Fiber Optics
fiber polarization controllers
fiber preforms → fiber fabrication
fiber rods → fiber bundles
fiber sensors → fiber-optic sensors
fiber splices → fiber joints
fiber splitters:
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber couplers and splitters
fiber-feedback parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
fiber-optic cables → fiber cables
fiber-optic communications → optical fiber communications
fiber-optic connectors → fiber connectors
fiber-optic parametric amplifiers → optical parametric amplifiers
fiber-optic patch cords → fiber cables
fibers:
→ Spotlight 2006-12-03: Diffraction in optical fibers
→ Spotlight 2009-07-09: Gain-guiding index-antiguiding fibers
→ Spotlight 2009-10-08: Nobel Prize for Charles K. Kao for pioneering work on optical fibers
→ Spotlight 2016-09-12: An apparent paradox concerning light beams in fibers
→ Tutorial on Passive Fiber Optics
field curvature → optical aberrations
field propagation:
→ Tutorial chapter on power propagation vs. field propagation
figure-of-eight laser → mode-locked fiber lasers
filters → optical filters
flash lamp pumping → lamp-pumped lasers
flat-top beams:
→ Spotlight 2010-04-08: Creating a top-hat laser beam focus
fluorescence lifetime → upper-state lifetime
fluorescence quenching → quenching
fluorescent cooling → optical refrigeration
fluorine lasers → excimer lasers
fluorozirconate fibers → fluoride fibers
fly-wheel oscillators → frequency metrology
FM mode locking → mode locking
Fock states → nonclassical light
focus → beam waist
focusing of light beams:
→ Spotlight 2009-11-22: The beam focus – not just a demagnified version of your beam
focusing power → focal length
forbidden transitions:
→ Spotlight 2011-03-13: What if solid-state laser transitions would be much stronger?
forsterite crystals → chromium-doped gain media
forward and backward pumping:
→ Tutorial chapter on forward and backward pumping of fiber amplifiers
Fourier limit → transform limit
Fourier spectrum:
→ Spotlight 2007-10-11: Understanding Fourier spectra
Fourier transform spectral phase interferometry → spectral phase interferometry
Fourier transform spectroscopy
four-level and three-level gain media
four-level and three-level gain media:
→ Spotlight 2006-08-12: Understanding quasi-three-level lasers
→ Spotlight 2017-03-15: Interesting features of over-long fiber lasers
→ Spotlight 2018-08-22: What is different for quasi-three-level lasers?
fourth-harmonic generation → frequency quadrupling
Frantz–Nodvick equation → gain saturation
Franz–Keldysh effect → electroabsorption modulators
free-space communications → free-space optical communications
free-space modes → modes
free-space optical communications
frequency chains → frequency metrology
frequency combs:
→ Spotlight 2006-07-01: Characterizing a cavity with a frequency comb
→ Spotlight 2006-07-01: With wavelength combs to picometer resolution
frequency conversion → nonlinear frequency conversion
frequency domain interferometry → spectral phase interferometry
frequency doubling:
→ Spotlight 2006-08-15: The effect of a double pass in a frequency doubler
→ Spotlight 2006-09-29: Frequency dependence of the conversion efficiency for frequency doubling
→ Spotlight 2007-03-05: More efficient frequency doubling with shorter pulses?
→ Spotlight 2007-09-21: Optimum crystal length for frequency doubling
→ Spotlight 2007-10-17: Why the second-harmonic beam is smaller
→ Spotlight 2008-01-14: Frequency doubling: long pulses cause trouble
→ Spotlight 2008-01-27: Beam quality in second-harmonic generation
→ Spotlight 2013-08-26: Frequency doubling and the reverse process
→ Spotlight 2014-11-14: Correctly designing frequency conversion stages: not easy, but worthwhile!
frequency standards → optical frequency standards
frequency synthesizers → frequency combs
frequency-resolved optical gating
front surface mirrors → first surface mirrors
frustrated total internal reflection → total internal reflection
f-stop number → f-number
f–theta lenses → scanning lenses
fused silica fibers → silica fibers
Acronyms beginning with F
FASOR = frequency addition source of optical radiation → sum and difference frequency generation
FBG = fiber Bragg grating
FCPA = fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification
FEL = free electron laser
FLIM = fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
FLM = fiber loop mirror
FMF = few-mode fiber
FOP = fiber-optic plate
FOV = field of view
FPA = focal plane array
FROG = frequency-resolved optical gating
FS mirror = first surface mirror
FTIR = Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy → Fourier transform spectroscopy
FTS = Fourier transform spectroscopy
FTTH = fiber to the home
FWM = four-wave mixing
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