Keywords beginning with Q
q parameter → Gaussian beams
Spotlight 2006-09-16: Q-switched lasers: YAG versus vanadate
Spotlight 2009-03-07: Complicated pulse shapes from Q-switched fiber lasers
QML threshold → Q-switched mode locking
quadrature squeezing → squeezed states of light
quality factor → Q factor
quantum yield → quantum efficiency
quarter-wave plates → waveplates
quasi-continuous-wave operation
quasi-three-level lasers → four-level and three-level gain media
Spotlight 2006-09-06: Quenching degrades the efficiency of some ytterbium-doped gain media
Acronyms beginning with Q
QCL = quantum cascade laser
QPM = quasi-phase matching
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