Keywords beginning with M
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "M". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter M)
Mach–Zehnder interferometers → interferometers
manufacturing of optics → optical fabrication
Marcuse formula → mode radius
master equation → Haus Master equation
master oscillator fiber amplifier
master oscillator fiber amplifier:
→ Spotlight 2008-12-16: Why fiber amplifiers, not fiber lasers?
→ Spotlight 2010-03-22: All-in-one concepts versus modular concepts
master oscillator power amplifier
master oscillator power amplifier:
→ Spotlight 2010-03-22: All-in-one concepts versus modular concepts
matrix method for multilayer structures → dielectric mirrors
metal–semiconductor–metal photodetectors
metamaterials → photonic metamaterials
metrology → optical metrology
Michelson--Morley experiment:
→ Spotlight 2008-07-13: The simplified history of the Michelson–Morley experiment
microcavities → cavities
microchannel plate detectors → photomultipliers
microchip lasers:
→ Spotlight 2018-09-28: Resonator modes in microchip lasers
microstructure fibers → photonic crystal fibers
microwave over fiber → radio and microwave over fiber
mirror-like reflection → specular reflection
misalignment → alignment sensitivity of optical resonators
misalignment of fibers → fiber joints
misalignment of resonators:
→ How to calculate misalignment effects in laser resonators
mm mrad → beam parameter product
modal dispersion → intermodal dispersion
modal refractive index → effective refractive index
mode area → effective mode area
mode competition:
→ Spotlight 2007-07-16: Mode competition – increased or decreased by spatial hole burning?
mode coupling:
→ Case study: mode coupling in a fiber Bragg grating
→ Spotlight 2006-07-24: Beam distortions in laser cavities
→ Spotlight 2016-08-11: Mode coupling in optical fibers: selective excitation of a higher-order mode with a fiber Bragg grating
mode cut-off → cut-off wavelength
mode field diameter → mode radius
mode instabilities in fibers:
→ Spotlight 2011-05-28: Explanation for the mode instability in high-power fiber amplifiers with few-mode fibers
mode lockers → mode locking devices
mode locking:
→ Self starting of passively mode-locked lasers: difficult to model
→ Spotlight 2017-04-12: Does a saturable absorber in a laser lead to passive Q switching or mode locking?
→ Spotlight 2017-08-31: Passive mode locking with slow saturable absorbers: surprisingly stable!
mode radius:
→ Spotlight 2014-07-28: How to define the mode radius of a fiber?
mode solvers → fiber simulation software
mode strippers → cladding mode strippers
modeling → laser modeling
modeling:
→ Spotlight 2006-11-16: Laser models – not always useful
→ Ultrashort pulse simulations with the RP Fiber Power software
→ What makes a good physics model
mode-locked fiber lasers:
→ Case study: mode-locked fiber laser
→ Spotlight 2008-03-17: Ultrafast fiber lasers: re-inventing mode Locking
→ Spotlight 2009-01-05: Extremely long mode-locked fiber laser
→ Spotlight 2009-08-22: Jitter and phase noise of mode-docked fiber lasers
→ Spotlight 2010-03-22: All-in-one concepts versus modular concepts
mode-locked lasers:
→ Spotlight 2008-03-26: Mode-locked lasers: lower average powers in shorter pulses
→ Spotlight 2011-12-23: mode-locked thin-disk laser
modes:
→ Case study: calculation of the modes of a germanosilicate fiber
→ Propagating optical fields in fibers based on modes or with numerical beam propagation
→ Spotlight 2008-04-15: Abused photonics terms: modes
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber modes
modified chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
modulators → optical modulators
monochromatic light:
→ Spotlight 2019-08-26: Can monochromatic light be unpolarized?
monochromaticity → linewidth
monochromators → spectrometers
monocrystalline fibers → single-crystal fibers
monocrystalline mirrors → crystalline mirrors
monofrequency lasers → single-frequency lasers
monomode fibers → single-mode fibers
multilayer coatings → dielectric coatings
multilayer mirrors → dielectric mirrors
multi-mode fibers → multimode fibers
multimode fibers:
→ Spotlight 2013-11-12: Beam quality limit for multimode fibers
→ Tutorial chapter on multimode fibers
multimode pump combiners → fiber-optic pump combiners
multimode waveguides → waveguides
multipass amplifiers:
→ Case study: multipass amplifier
multi-phonon transitions:
→ Spotlight 2018-04-06: Laser physics: the essential roles of phonons in solid-state lasers
multiphoton ionization → laser-induced breakdown
multiphoton microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
multiple pulses → double pulses
multi-stage amplifiers → amplifier chains
multi-stage amplifiers:
→ Modeling multi-stage amplifiers with RP Fiber Power
→ Tutorial chapter on multi-stage fiber amplifiers
Acronyms beginning with M
MCF = multi-core fiber
MCP = microchannel plate
MCVD = modified chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
MDM = mode division multiplexing
MFD = mode field diameter → mode radius
MISER = monolithic isolated single-mode end-pumped ring → NPRO = nonplanar ring oscillator
MMF = multimode fiber
MOF = microstructure optical fiber → photonic crystal fibers
MOFA = master oscillator fiber amplifier
MOPA = master oscillator power amplifier
MOPFA = master oscillator power fiber amplifier
MQW = multiple quantum wells
MSM photodetector = metal–semiconductor–metal photodetector
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