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f-2f interferometer → frequency combs
Fabry–Pérot interferometers
Faraday isolators
Faraday rotators
fast absorbers → saturable absorbers
fast axis → diode bars
fast light → superluminal transmission
faster than light → superluminal transmission
femtosecond fiber lasers → mode-locked fiber lasers
femtosecond lasers
femtosecond pulse amplifiers → ultrafast amplifiers
ferroelectric domain engineering → periodic poling
few-cycle pulses → ultrashort pulses
fiber amplifiers
fiber Bragg gratings
fiber cladding → fibers
fiber connectors → fiber joints
fiber core
fiber-coupled diode lasers
fiber couplers
fiber drawing tower → fiber fabrication
fiber fabrication
fiber-feedback parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
fiber fuse
fiber joints
fiber lasers
fiber lasers versus bulk lasers
fiber manufacturing → fiber fabrication
fiber modes → fibers
fiber-optic communications → optical fiber communications
fiber-optic links
fiber-optic networks
fiber-optic parametric amplifiers → optical parametric amplifiers
fiber-optic sensors
fiber optics → fibers
fiber polarization controllers
fiber preform → fiber fabrication
fiber sensors → fiber-optic sensors
fiber to the home
fibers
figure-of-eight laser → mode-locked fiber lasers
filters → optical filters
finesse
flash lamp pumping → lamp-pumped lasers
fluorescence
fluorescence lifetime → upper-state lifetime
fluorescence microscopy
fluorescence quenching → quenching
fluorescent cooling → optical refrigeration
fluorescent lamps
fluoride fibers
fluorine lasers → excimer lasers
fluorozirconate fibers → fluoride fibers
fly-wheel oscillators → frequency metrology
FM mode locking → mode locking
focal length
Fock states → nonclassical light
focusing power → focal length
forbidden transitions
forsterite crystals → chromium-doped gain media
four-level and three-level gain media
four-wave mixing
Fourier limit → transform limit
Fourier transform spectral phase interferometry → spectral interferometry
fourth-harmonic generation → frequency quadrupling
Frantz–Nodvick equation → gain saturation
Franz–Keldysh effect → electroabsorption modulators
free electron lasers
free-space communications → free-space optical communications
free-space modes → modes
free-space optical communications
free spectral range
frequency chains → frequency metrology
frequency combs
frequency conversion → nonlinear frequency conversion
frequency domain interferometry → spectral interferometry
frequency doubling
frequency metrology
frequency noise
frequency quadrupling
frequency-resolved optical gating
frequency standards → optical frequency standards
frequency synthesizers → frequency combs
frequency tripling
Fresnel number
Füchtbauer–Ladenburg equation
fundamental mode locking
fused silica fibers → silica fibers
fusion splicing of fibers

Acronyms beginning with F

FASOR = frequency addition source of optical radiation → sum and difference frequency generation
FBG = fiber Bragg grating
FCPA = fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification
FEL = free electron laser
FLIM = fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
FROG = frequency-resolved optical gating
FTTH = fiber to the home
FWM = four-wave mixing


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