Keywords beginning with B
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "B". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter B.)
bandwidth: Spotlight 2007-10-11: Understanding Fourier spectra
bat ear controllers → fiber polarization controllers
beam blocks → beam dumps
beam characterization: Spotlight 2007-06-01: Characterize your pump beam!
beam collimation → collimated beams
beam diagnostics → beam profilers
beam diameter → beam radius
beam distortions → beam quality
beam focus → beam waist
beam focus: Spotlight 2009-11-22: The beam focus – not just a demagnified version of your beam
beam pointing stability → beam pointing fluctuations
beam propagation: Tutorial chapter on power propagation vs. field propagation
beam propagation factor → M2 factor
beam quality: Spotlight 2020-09-30: Beam radius and beam quality of laser pulses
beam quality: Spotlight 2013-11-12: Beam quality limit for multimode fibers
beam quality: Spotlight 2008-03-04: What is a ''high'' laser beam quality?
beam quality: Spotlight 2007-06-11: Beam quality measurements can easily go wrong
beam quality: Spotlight 2006-07-24: Beam distortions in laser cavities
beam quality factor → M2 factor
beam radius: Spotlight 2020-09-30: Beam radius and beam quality of laser pulses
beam radius: Spotlight 2007-07-11: What is a beam width, beam size, and a beam waist?
beam reducers → beam expanders
beam shapers: Spotlight 2010-04-08: Creating a top-hat laser beam focus
beam traps → beam dumps
beam viewing cards → laser viewing cards
beat length → polarization beat length
beat note: Spotlight 2009-07-29: No beat note for orthogonal modes
beat notes: Spotlight 2008-07-26: Beat signals with zero linewidth
bend losses: Case study: bend effects in a large mode area fiber
Berek tunable waveplates → Babinet–Soleil compensators
binoculars → telescopes
biophotons: Spotlight 2007-02-16: The science of biophotons
birefringence: Tutorial chapter on polarization issues in optical fibers
birefringence: Spotlight 2007-05-19: Why strong birefringence in fibers helps
birefringent fibers → polarization-maintaining fibers
birefringent filters → birefringent tuners
birefringent polarizers → polarizers
birefringent walk-off → spatial walk-off
blackbody radiation → thermal radiation
blazed gratings → diffraction gratings
borosilicate glasses → silicate glasses
bound modes → guided waves
Bragg fibers → photonic bandgap fibers
Bragg grating sensors → fiber-optic sensors
Bragg mirrors: Case study: Bragg mirror
breakdown → laser-induced breakdown
Brillouin scattering: Spotlight 2010-03-03: Thresholds for nonlinear effects in fiber amplifiers
Brillouin scattering: Spotlight 2007-09-01: Stimulated Brillouin scattering: lower peak power, stronger effect?
Brillouin scattering: Spotlight 2007-06-24: The plague of a narrow emission linewidth
broadband light sources → superluminescent sources
buildup welding → laser cladding
bulk Bragg gratings → volume Bragg gratings
bulk lasers versus fiber lasers → fiber lasers versus bulk lasers
bundled fibers → fiber bundles
Acronyms with B
BBAR = broadband anti-reflection
BER = bit error rate
BERT = bit error rate tester
BLIIRA = blue-induced infrared absorption → photodarkening
BPP = beam parameter product