Keywords beginning with P
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "P". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter P)
pair-induced quenching:
→ Modeling pair-induced quenching in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
pair-induced quenching → quenching
PANDA fibers → polarization-maintaining fibers
parabolic index fibers → graded-index fibers
parabolic pulses:
→ Case study: parabolic pulses in a fiber amplifier
parametric amplification:
→ Spotlight 2007-12-11: The idler wave – essential for parametric amplification and oscillation
parametric amplifiers → optical parametric amplifiers
parametric generators → optical parametric generators
parametric oscillation:
→ Spotlight 2013-08-26: Frequency doubling and the reverse process
parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
parasitic absorption → absorption
passive fibers:
→ Tutorial on Passive Fiber Optics
passive mode locking:
→ Case study: passively mode-locked picosecond bulk laser
→ Self starting of passively mode-locked lasers: difficult to model
→ Spotlight 2008-05-13: Easier self-starting passive mode locking for short lasers
→ Spotlight 2008-07-02: Stronger focusing avoids SESAM damage
→ 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!
→ Spotlight 2018-01-08: Self-starting of passively mode-locked lasers
passive Q switching → Q switching
patch cables → fiber patch cables
peak intensity:
→ Spotlight 2009-10-03: Peak intensity of Gaussian beam
percentage of doping → doping concentration
perfect diffusion → Lambertian emitters and scatterers
Pfund cells → multipass gas cells
phase → optical phase
phase coherence → coherence
phase constant → propagation constant
phase matching:
→ Spotlight 2008-03-10: Automatic phase matching
phase mismatch → phase matching
phase noise:
→ Spotlight 2009-08-22: Jitter and phase noise of mode-docked fiber lasers
phase shift method for distance measurements
phase synchronization of lasers → synchronization of lasers
phase-matching bandwidth:
→ Spotlight 2007-11-19: Walk-off and phase-matching bandwidth in nonlinear crystals
phase-sensitive amplification → parametric amplification
phase-squeezed light → squeezed states of light
phonons:
→ Spotlight 2018-04-06: Laser physics: the essential roles of phonons in solid-state lasers
phonon-terminated lasers → vibronic lasers
photoacoustic spectroscopy → spectroscopy
photochromic damage → photodarkening
photocouplers → opto-isolators
photodetection:
→ Spotlight 2009-12-13: Johnson-Nyquist noise in photodiode circuits
photodetector arrays → photodiode arrays
photodetectors:
→ Spotlight 2009-11-13: Photodetection: optical and electrical powers
photodiodes:
→ Spotlight 2006-10-16: Using a current amplifier for optical power measurements and recording with a photodiode
→ Spotlight 2009-12-13: Johnson-Nyquist noise in photodiode circuits
photoelectric detectors → photoemissive detectors
photoemission → photoelectric effect
photo-induced attenuation → photodarkening
photoinduced losses → photodarkening
photometry → optical metrology
photon number states → nonclassical light
photon science → photonics
photon statistics → nonclassical light
photonic power → power over fiber
photons:
→ Spotlight 2007-02-16: The science of biophotons
→ Spotlight 2007-03-23: Explaining the nature of photons to lay persons
→ Spotlight 2008-05-05: Length of a photon
photopic vision → scotopic and photopic vision
photoreceivers → photodetectors
photoresistors → photoconductive detectors
photosensitivity → fiber Bragg gratings
physical optics → wave optics
picosecond pulse amplifiers → ultrafast amplifiers
pigtailed diode lasers → fiber-coupled diode lasers
planar lightwave circuits → photonic integrated circuits
Planck law → thermal radiation
plasma deposition methods → fiber fabrication
plate beam splitters → beam splitters
pointing stability → beam pointing fluctuations
polarimetry → polarimeters
polarization:
→ Spotlight 2008-04-28: Different kinds of polarization
→ Tutorial chapter on polarization issues in fibers
polarization controllers → fiber polarization controllers
polarization coupling → polarization beam combining
polarization extinction ratio → polarization of light
polarization gradient cooling → Sisyphus cooling
polarization of light:
→ Spotlight 2012-03-03: Conflicting definitions of s and p polarization
→ Spotlight 2019-08-26: Can monochromatic light be unpolarized?
polarization rotators → Faraday rotators
polarization-maintaining fibers
polarization-maintaining fibers:
→ Spotlight 2007-05-19: Why strong birefringence in fibers helps
polarization-preserving fibers → polarization-maintaining fibers
polarizers:
→ Case study: polarizing cube
→ Case study: thin-film plate polarizer
polarizing beam splitters → polarizers
polarizing cubes → thin-film polarizers
Polaroid filters → polarizers
polycrystalline fibers → mid-infrared fibers
polymer optical fibers → plastic optical fibers
polymer optics → plastic optics
power amplification factor → amplification factor
power amplifiers → master oscillator power amplifier
power efficiency → wall-plug efficiency
power meters → optical power meters
power monitors → optical power monitors
power propagation:
→ Tutorial chapter on power propagation vs. field propagation
power scaling:
→ Spotlight 2006-09-21: Power scaling limits of optical parametric amplifiers
→ Spotlight 2009-09-19: Are laser resonators power scalable?
power scaling of lasers:
→ Spotlight 2007-09-07: Power scaling in downward direction
→ Spotlight 2007-12-03: New paper on power scaling of lasers
power splitters → beam splitters
Poynting vector walk-off → spatial walk-off
praseodymium-doped fibers → rare-earth-doped fibers
precision fiber cleavers → fiber cleavers
preforms → fiber fabrication
primary colors → color spaces
principal points and principal planes
prism retroreflectors → prisms
prism-based beam expanders → anamorphic prism pairs
profilometers → optical profilometers
propagation losses in fibers:
→ Tutorial chapter on propagation losses in fibers
protected metal-coated mirrors → first surface mirrors
pulse amplifiers:
→ Tutorial chapter on fiber amplifiers for nanosecond pulses
pulse break-up → nonlinear pulse distortion
pulse compression:
→ Case study: nonlinear pulse compression
pulse duration:
→ Spotlight 2017-10-03: Importance of spectral wings on the pulse duration
pulse length → pulse duration
pulse propagation modeling:
→ Numerical representation of ultrashort pulses
→ Ultrashort pulse simulations with the RP Fiber Power software
pulse shape → Gaussian pulses
pulse width → pulse duration
pulses:
→ Field Guide to Laser Pulses
pulses in fibers:
→ Tutorial chapter on ultrashort pulses and signals fibers
pulse-to-pulse jitter → timing jitter
pump absorption:
→ Case study: pump absorption in a double-clad fiber
→ Spotlight 2006-11-04: Nd:YVO4 laser with polarization-independent pump absorption
→ Spotlight 2007-08-22: Saturation of pump absorption – an important issue?
→ Spotlight 2016-05-12: Measurement of absorption spectra of active fibers: not as easy as one might think!
pump combiners → fiber-optic pump combiners
pump threshold → threshold pump power
pump–probe spectroscopy → time-resolved spectroscopy
pupils → entrance and exit pupil
Acronyms beginning with P
P-APM = polarization additive-pulse mode locking → nonlinear polarization rotation
PCF = photonic crystal fiber or polymer cladded fiber
PCVD = plasma chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PECVD = plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PIC = photonic integrated circuit
PICVD = plasma impulse chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PL = photoluminescence
PLC = planar lightwave circuit
PLD = pulsed laser deposition
PM fiber = polarization-maintaining fiber
PMD = polarization mode dispersion
PMT = photomultiplier tube
POF = plastic optical fiber
PRF = pulse repetition frequency → pulse repetition rate
PSD = position-sensitive diode (or device or detector)
PSD = power spectral density
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