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Keywords beginning with P
PANDA fibers → polarization-maintaining fibers
Spotlight 2007-12-11: The idler wave – essential for parametric amplification and oscillation
parametric amplifiers → optical parametric amplifiers
parametric generators → optical parametric generators
parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
paraxial approximation → Gaussian beams
passive Q switching → Q switching
percentage of doping → doping concentration
phase coherence → coherence
Spotlight 2008-03-10: Automatic phase matching
phase mismatch → phase matching
phase-sensitive amplification → parametric amplification
phase shift method for distance measurements
phase-squeezed light → squeezed states of light
phonon-terminated lasers → vibronic lasers
photochromic damage → photodarkening
photocurrent → photodiodes
Spotlight 2009-11-13: Photodetection: optical and electrical powers
Spotlight 2009-12-13: Johnson–Nyquist noise in photodiode circuits
photoinduced losses → photodarkening
photometry → optical metrology
photon number states → nonclassical light
photon statistics → nonclassical light
photonic power → power over fiber
Spotlight 2008-05-05: Length of a photon
Spotlight 2007-03-23: Explaining the nature of photons to lay persons
photoreceivers → photodetectors
photosensitivity → fiber Bragg gratings
picosecond pulse amplifiers → ultrafast amplifiers
planar lightwave circuits → photonic integrated circuits
plasma deposition methods → fiber fabrication
pointing stability → beam pointing fluctuations
polarization controllers → fiber polarization controllers
polarization coupling → polarization beam combining
polarization extinction ratio → polarization of laser emission
polarization gradient cooling → Sisyphus cooling
polarization-maintaining fibers
Spotlight 2007-05-19: Why strong birefringence in fibers helps
polarization of laser emission
Spotlight 2008-04-28: Different kinds of polarization
polarization-preserving fibers → polarization-maintaining fibers
polarization rotators → Faraday rotators
polymer optical fibers → plastic optical fibers
power amplification factor → amplification factor
power amplifiers → master oscillator power amplifier
power efficiency → wall-plug efficiency
Spotlight 2007-12-03: New paper on power scaling of lasers
Spotlight 2007-09-07: Power scaling in downward direction
power splitters → beam splitters
Poynting vector walk-off → spatial walk-off
praseodymium-doped fibers → rare-earth-doped fibers
preform → fiber fabrication
pulse break-up → nonlinear pulse distortion
pulse shape → Gaussian pulses
pulse-to-pulse jitter → timing jitter
pulse width → pulse duration
Spotlight 2007-08-22: Saturation of pump absorption – an important issue?
pump threshold → threshold pump power
Acronyms beginning with P
P-APM = polarization additive-pulse mode locking → nonlinear polarization rotation
PCF = photonic crystal fiber
PCVD = plasma chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PECVD = plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PIC = photonic integrated circuit
PICVD = plasma impulse chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
PL = photoluminescence
PLC = planar lightwave circuit
PLD = pulsed laser deposition
PMD = polarization mode dispersion
PMT = photomultiplier tube
POF = plastic optical fiber
PSD = power spectral density
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