Keywords beginning with G
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "G". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter G)
gain:
→ Tutorial chapter on gain and absorption in rare-earth-doped fibers
gain bandwidth:
→ Spotlight 2007-10-25: The gain bandwidth of laser crystals and glasses
gain compression → gain saturation
gain flattening → gain equalization
gain guiding:
→ Spotlight 2009-07-09: Gain-guiding index-antiguiding fibers
→ Spotlight 2017-11-02: Gaussian apertures in resonator models: not only for exotic lasers, but also for gain guiding
gain media:
→ Spotlight 2018-08-22: What is different for quasi-three-level lasers?
gain modules → laser heads
gain saturation:
→ Case study: pulse amplification in a fiber amplifier
→ Spotlight 2015-08-08: Gain saturation with pulses
→ Spotlight 2017-08-01: Fiber amplifiers: modeling of ultrashort pulse amplification with saturation of wavelength-dependent gain
→ Spotlight 2018-05-11: Gain saturation in solid-state lasers
gas absorption cells → multipass gas cells
Gaussian apertures:
→ Spotlight 2017-11-02: Gaussian apertures in resonator models: not only for exotic lasers, but also for gain guiding
Gaussian beams:
→ Spotlight 2009-10-03: Peak intensity of Gaussian beam
Gaussian mirrors → variable reflectivity mirrors
Geiger mode photodiodes → avalanche photodiodes
giant pulses → Q switching
Gires–Tournois interferometers
Gires--Tournois interferometers:
→ Case study: Gires–-Tournois interferometer
glass fibers → fibers
Glauber states → coherent states
goggles → eye protection
gold mirrors → metal-coated mirrors
Gouy phase:
→ Spotlight 2008-11-25: The Gouy phase shift speeds up light
graded reflectivity mirrors → variable reflectivity mirrors
gradient-index filters → rugate filters
grating compressors → pulse compression
gratings → diffraction gratings
gray tracking → photodarkening
green lasers:
→ Spotlight 2009-08-14: Progress on green laser diodes
green problem → intracavity frequency doubling
green-induced infrared absorption → photodarkening
GRISMs → dispersion compensation
ground state laser transitions → four-level and three-level gain media
group refractive index → group index
group velocity:
→ Spotlight 2016-09-12: An apparent paradox concerning light beams in fibers
guide stars → laser guide stars
guided modes → modes
Acronyms beginning with G
GDD = group delay dispersion
GM-APD = Geiger mode avalanche photodiode
GRENOUILLE → FROG → frequency-resolved optical gating
GRIIRA = green-induced infrared absorption → photodarkening
GRIN lens = gradient-index lens
GRM = graded reflectivity mirror
GTI = Gires–Tournois interferometer
GVD = group velocity dispersion
GVM = group velocity mismatch
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