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Keywords beginning with S
S band → optical fiber communications
safety → laser safety
safety glasses → eye protection
sampled grating lasers → distributed Bragg reflector lasers
sampling → electro-optic sampling
satellite communications → free-space optical communications
saturable absorber mirror → semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors
saturable absorbers
saturable Bragg reflectors
saturated output power → saturation power
saturation energy
saturation fluence → saturation energy
saturation intensity → saturation power
saturation of absorption → pump absorption
saturation of gain → gain saturation
saturation parameter → saturable absorbers
saturation power
scalability → power scaling of lasers
scaling procedures → power scaling of lasers
scanning beam profilers → beam profilers
Schawlow–Townes linewidth
sech2-shaped pulses
second-harmonic generation → frequency doubling
second-order dispersion → group delay dispersion
seed lasers
self-focusing
self-heterodyne linewidth measurement
self-injection locking → injection locking
self-phase modulation
self-phase-stabilized pulses → carrier–envelope offset
self-referenced frequency combs → frequency combs
self-similar pulse propagation → parabolic pulses
self-starting mode locking
self-steepening → Kerr effect
self-terminating laser transitions
Sellmeier formula
semiconductor diode lasers → laser diodes
semiconductor disk lasers → vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers
semiconductor fiber lasers → fiber lasers
semiconductor lasers
semiconductor optical amplifiers
semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors
sensitivity to alignment → alignment sensitivity
sensors → fiber-optic sensors
sequential sampling → electro-optic sampling
SESAM mode-locked lasers → mode-locked lasers
short pulses → pulses
shot noise
side pumping
silica fibers
silicon photonics
similaritons → parabolic pulses
single-atom lasers
single-emitter laser diodes → broad area laser diodes
single-frequency lasers
single-frequency operation
single-mode cut-off → single-mode fibers
single-mode fibers
single-mode operation
single-polarization fibers
single transverse mode operation → single-mode operation
single-wavelength lasers → single-frequency lasers
singly resonant cavities → resonant frequency doubling
singly resonant oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
Sisyphus cooling
slab lasers
slave laser
slope efficiency
slow absorbers → saturable absorbers
slow axis → diode bars
slow light → velocity of light
small-signal gain
soft aperture mode locking → Kerr lens mode locking
solid-state lasers
soliton compression → pulse compression
soliton fission → supercontinuum generation
soliton mode locking
soliton period
soliton self-frequency shift → solitons
solitons
solution doping → fiber fabrication
space communications → free-space optical communications
spatial coherence → coherence
spatial hole burning
spatial walk-off
speckle
spectral beam combining
spectral brightness
spectral interferometry
spectral linewidth → linewidth
spectral phase
spectral power density → power spectral density
spectral width → bandwidth
spectrograms
speed of light → velocity of light
spiking
splicing → fibers
split-step Fourier technique → pulse propagation modeling
spontaneous emission
spontaneous emission factor → Schawlow–Townes linewidth
spontaneous Raman scattering → Raman scattering
squeezed states of light
stability zones
stabilization of lasers
stack lasers → diode stacks
standard quantum limit
standard single-mode fiber → single-mode fibers
step-index fibers
stimulated Brillouin scattering → Brillouin scattering
stimulated emission
stimulated emission cross sections → transition cross sections
stimulated emission depletion microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
stimulated Raman scattering → Raman scattering
Stokes shift
stress rods → polarization-maintaining fibers
stretched-pulse fiber lasers → mode-locked fiber lasers
sum and difference frequency generation
supercontinuum generation
superfluorescence
superluminal transmission
superluminescence
superluminescent diodes
superluminescent sources
supermirrors
supermodes → harmonic mode locking
superradiance
surface-emitting LEDs → light-emitting diodes
surface-emitting semiconductor lasers
symmetrized split-step Fourier method → pulse propagation modeling
sync-pumped parametric oscillators → optical parametric oscillators
synchronous pumping
Acronyms beginning with S
SASE = self-amplified spontaneous emission → amplified spontaneous emission
SBR = saturable Bragg reflector
SBS = stimulated Brillouin scattering
SCG = supercontinuum generation
SESAM = semiconductor saturable absorber mirror
SFG = sum frequency generation
SFS = superfluorescent (actually superluminescent!) fiber source → superluminescent sources
SHG = second-harmonic generation = frequency doubling
SLD = superluminescent diode
SLED = surface-emitting LED or superluminescent diode
SOA = semiconductor optical amplifier
SPAD = single-photon avalanche diode
SPIDER = spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction → spectral interferometry
SPM = self-phase modulation
SPOPO = synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator
SRO = singly resonant (parametric) oscillator
SRS = stimulated Raman scattering
SSL = solid-state laser
STED = stimulated emission depletion microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
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