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Keywords beginning with C
C band → optical fiber communications
cameras → beam profilers
carbon dioxide lasers → CO2 lasers
carrier lifetime → upper-state lifetime
cascade lasing → cooperative lasing
caustic → beam quality
cavity bandwidth → resonator modes
cavity design → resonator design
cavity dumpers → pulse pickers
cavity modes → resonator modes
cavity resonances → resonator modes
chemical lasers → gas lasers
chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
Spotlight 2008-02-03: Quantifying the chirp of ultrashort pulses
chirped pulses → chirp
cladding → fibers
cladding-pumped fibers → double-clad fibers
class-A and class-B regime of a laser → relaxation oscillations
cleaner cavities → mode cleaners
coatings → dielectric coatings
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
Spotlight 2006-09-22: Coherence length of ultrashort pulses
coherent detection → optical heterodyne detection
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
concentration of dopant → doping concentration
concentration quenching → quenching
confocal microscopy → laser microscopy
confocal parameter → Rayleigh length
conical emission → laser-induced breakdown
copper vapor lasers → gas lasers
core → fiber core
coupled-mode theory → mode coupling
Spotlight 2008-02-12: Factor 2 in the equation for cross-phase modulation
cross relaxation → energy transfer
cross sections → transition cross sections
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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