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C band → optical fiber communications

cameras → beam profilers

carbon dioxide lasers → CO2 lasers

carrier–envelope offset

carrier lifetime → upper-state lifetime

cascade lasing → cooperative lasing

causality

caustic → beam quality

cavities

cavity bandwidth → resonator modes

cavity design → resonator design

cavity dumpers → pulse pickers

cavity dumping

cavity modes → resonator modes

cavity resonances → resonator modes

ceramic gain media

chemical lasers → gas lasers

chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication

chemiluminescence

chirp

Spotlight 2008-02-03: Quantifying the chirp of ultrashort pulses

chirped mirrors

chirped-pulse amplification

chirped pulses → chirp

chromatic dispersion

chromium-doped gain media

cladding → fibers

cladding modes

cladding-pumped fibers → double-clad fibers

class-A and class-B regime of a laser → relaxation oscillations

cleaner cavities → mode cleaners

clustering

CO2 lasers

coatings → dielectric coatings

coherence

Spotlight 2009-11-03: Coherent light from a bulb?

Spotlight 2009-06-23: Coherence – a black-or-white issue?

Spotlight 2008-04-22: Abused photonics terms: coherence

coherence function → coherence time

coherence length

Spotlight 2006-09-22: Coherence length of ultrashort pulses

coherence time

coherent beam combining

coherent detection → optical heterodyne detection

coherent states

collimated beams

collimation optics → collimated beams

color filters → optical filters

comb spectra → frequency combs

compact fluorescent lamps → fluorescent lamps

complex degree of temporal coherence → coherence time

complex refractive index → refractive index

composite laser crystals

concentration of dopant → doping concentration

concentration quenching → quenching

confocal microscopy → laser microscopy

confocal parameter → Rayleigh length

conical emission → laser-induced breakdown

continuous-wave operation

cooperative lasing

copper vapor lasers → gas lasers

core → fiber core

core-less end caps

coupled-mode theory → mode coupling

critical phase matching

cross-phase modulation

Spotlight 2008-02-12: Factor 2 in the equation for cross-phase modulation

cross relaxation → energy transfer

cross sections → transition cross sections

cryogenic lasers

cut-off wavelength → single-mode fibers

cycle jitter → timing jitter

Acronyms beginning with C

CEO = carrier–envelope offset
CEP = carrier–envelope phase → carrier–envelope offset
CFL = compact fluorescent lamp
CPA = chirped-pulse amplification
CWDM = coarse wavelength division multiplexing


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