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L band → optical fiber communications

lamp-pumped lasers

lanthanide lasers → rare-earth-doped gain media

large mode area fibers

Spotlight 2007-04-28: Easier launching into fibers with large mode area?

Spotlight 2007-02-04: Continuing struggle for larger fiber mode areas

Spotlight 2006-08-10: Single-mode fibers with large mode areas

laser amplifiers → amplifiers

laser applications

Spotlight 2009-04-17: Miniature laser projectors – The next big laser thing?

laser beam quality → beam quality

laser beam shapers → beam shapers

laser beams

Spotlight 2009-11-22: The beam focus – not just a demagnified version of your beam

laser cavities → laser resonators

laser communications → free-space optical communications

laser cooling

laser cross sections → transition cross sections

laser crystals

laser crystals versus glasses

laser design

laser development

Spotlight 2006-07-05: Laser design: side product or the basis of laser development?

laser diode bars → diode bars

laser diode modules

laser diode stacks → diode stacks

laser diodes

laser disks → thin-disk lasers

laser distance meters → distance measurements with lasers

laser dynamics

laser gain → gain

laser gain media → gain media

laser glasses → laser crystals versus glasses

laser goggles → eye protection

laser guide stars

laser hazards → laser safety

laser heads

laser-induced breakdown

laser light

laser linewidth → linewidth

laser links → free-space optical communications

laser marking

laser media → gain media

laser microscopy

laser mirrors

Spotlight 2006-10-26: Residual transmission through highly reflecting mirrors

laser modeling

Spotlight 2006-11-16: Laser models – not always useful

laser modules → laser heads

laser noise

Spotlight 2006-10-09: Correct specifications for laser noise – valuable but hard to obtain

Spotlight 2006-08-20: Lower noise from longer lasers

laser oscillators → lasers

laser physics

laser pointers

Spotlight 2010-01-11: Beams of laser pointers: visible in air?

Spotlight 2009-04-06: Laser pointers in soccer games: not necessarily harmless

laser pulses → pulses

laser radar → distance measurements with lasers

laser radiation → laser light

laser range finding → distance measurements with lasers

laser refrigeration → optical refrigeration

laser resonators

laser rods → rod lasers

laser safety

Spotlight 2007-12-18: The role of laser safety goggles

Spotlight 2007-07-06: Promoting dangerous practices in laser labs

Spotlight 2007-07-01: Nonsensical regulations undermine laser safety

Spotlight 2006-12-16: Dangerous green laser pointers

laser threshold

Spotlight 2007-05-10: Fundamental limitation for sigma–tau product, gain efficiency, and laser threshold

Spotlight 2007-01-21: Operation far above threshold

laser transitions

laser transmitter → free-space optical communications

lasers

Spotlight 2008-05-25: Einstein and the laser

Spotlight 2007-08-27: Distant healing of lasers

Spotlight 2007-02-22: Lossy laser cavities

Spotlight 2006-08-23: Lasers with nonlinear input–output characteristics

lasing without inversion

lateral modes → higher-order modes

left-handed metamaterials → photonic metamaterials

lifetime broadening → gain bandwidth

light-emitting diodes

light forces

Spotlight 2006-10-22: Lasers attract dust to cavity mirrors

light-induced absorption → photodarkening

light intensity → optical intensity

light pulses → pulses

linear polarization → polarization of laser emission

linear resonators → optical resonators

linear versus ring resonators → optical resonators

linewidth

Spotlight 2008-07-26: Beat signals with zero linewidth

Spotlight 2007-06-24: The plague of a narrow emission linewidth

linewidth enhancement factor

lithium niobate and tantalate → nonlinear crystal materials

long-period fiber Bragg gratings → fiber Bragg gratings

longitudinal pumping → end pumping

lower-state lifetime

luminescence

luminescence quenching → quenching

Lyot filters

Acronyms beginning with L

laser = light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LD = laser diode
LED = light-emitting diode
LHM = left-handed metamaterials → photonic metamaterials
LIBS = laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
LMA fiber = large mode area fiber


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