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Keywords beginning with F
f-2f interferometer → frequency combs
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 pulse amplifiers → ultrafast amplifiers
ferroelectric domain engineering → periodic poling
few-cycle pulses → ultrashort pulses
fiber cladding → fibers
fiber connectors → fiber joints
fiber drawing tower → fiber fabrication
fiber-feedback parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
Spotlight 2008-06-06: Fiber lasers which are no fiber lasers
fiber lasers versus bulk lasers
fiber manufacturing → fiber fabrication
fiber modes → fibers
fiber-optic communications → optical fiber communications
fiber-optic parametric amplifiers → optical parametric amplifiers
fiber optics → fibers
fiber polarization controllers
fiber preform → fiber fabrication
fiber sensors → fiber-optic sensors
Spotlight 2009-10-08: Nobel Prize for Charles K. Kao for pioneering work on optical fibers
Spotlight 2009-07-09: Gain-guiding index-antiguiding fibers
Spotlight 2006-12-03: Diffraction in optical fibers
figure-of-eight laser → mode-locked fiber lasers
filters → optical filters
flash lamp pumping → lamp-pumped lasers
fluorescence lifetime → upper-state lifetime
fluorescence quenching → quenching
fluorescent cooling → optical refrigeration
fluorine lasers → excimer lasers
fluorozirconate fibers → fluoride fibers
fly-wheel oscillators → frequency metrology
FM mode locking → mode locking
Fock states → nonclassical light
focusing power → focal length
forsterite crystals → chromium-doped gain media
four-level and three-level gain media
Spotlight 2006-08-12: Understanding quasi-three-level lasers
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-space communications → free-space optical communications
free-space modes → modes
free-space optical communications
frequency chains → frequency metrology
Spotlight 2006-07-01: Characterizing a cavity with a frequency comb
Spotlight 2006-07-01: With wavelength combs to picometer resolution
frequency conversion → nonlinear frequency conversion
frequency domain interferometry → spectral interferometry
Spotlight 2008-01-27: Beam quality in second-harmonic generation
Spotlight 2008-01-14: Frequency doubling: long pulses cause trouble
Spotlight 2007-10-17: Why the second-harmonic beam is smaller
Spotlight 2007-09-21: Optimum crystal length for frequency doubling
Spotlight 2007-03-05: More efficient frequency doubling with shorter pulses?
Spotlight 2006-09-29: Frequency dependence of the conversion efficiency for frequency doubling
Spotlight 2006-08-15: The effect of a double pass in a frequency doubler
frequency-resolved optical gating
frequency standards → optical frequency standards
frequency synthesizers → frequency combs
fused silica fibers → silica 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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