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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
Spotlight 2008-07-02: Stronger focusing avoids SESAM damage
saturated output power → saturation power
saturation fluence → saturation energy
saturation intensity → saturation power
saturation of absorption → pump absorption
saturation of gain → gain saturation
saturation parameter → saturable absorbers
scalability → power scaling of lasers
scaling procedures → power scaling of lasers
scanning beam profilers → beam profilers
Derivation of the Schawlow–Townes linewidth
second-harmonic generation → frequency doubling
second-order dispersion → group delay dispersion
self-heterodyne linewidth measurement
self-injection locking → injection locking
Effect of self-phase modulation on the pulse bandwidth
self-phase-stabilized pulses → carrier–envelope offset
self-referenced frequency combs → frequency combs
self-similar pulse propagation → parabolic pulses
Spotlight 2008-05-13: Easier self-starting passive mode locking for short lasers
self-steepening → Kerr effect
self-terminating laser transitions
semiconductor diode lasers → laser diodes
semiconductor disk lasers → vertical external-cavity surface-emitting lasers
semiconductor fiber lasers → fiber 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
Spotlight 2007-04-16: Questions and answers on shot noise
similaritons → parabolic pulses
Spotlight 2006-07-23: Single-atom lasers
single-emitter laser diodes → broad area laser diodes
single-mode cut-off → single-mode 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
slow absorbers → saturable absorbers
slow axis → diode bars
slow light → velocity of light
soft aperture mode locking → Kerr lens mode locking
soliton compression → pulse compression
soliton fission → supercontinuum generation
soliton self-frequency shift → solitons
Spotlight 2008-04-02: Solitons: lower dispersion, stronger dispersive effects!
solution doping → fiber fabrication
space communications → free-space optical communications
spatial coherence → coherence
Spotlight 2006-09-03: Single-frequency operation stabilized by spatial hole burning
Spotlight 2007-11-19: Walk-off and phase-matching bandwidth in nonlinear crystals
Spotlight 2010-03-15: Spatial walk-off and beam quality in nonlinear frequency conversion
spectral linewidth → linewidth
spectral power density → power spectral density
spectral width → bandwidth
speed of light → velocity of light
splicing → fibers
split-step Fourier technique → pulse propagation modeling
Spotlight 2006-07-16: Spontaneous emission and amplifier noise
spontaneous emission factor → Schawlow–Townes linewidth
spontaneous Raman scattering → Raman scattering
Spotlight 2006-10-01: Stability zones of laser resonators
stack lasers → diode stacks
standard single-mode fiber → single-mode fibers
stimulated Brillouin scattering → Brillouin scattering
stimulated emission cross sections → transition cross sections
stimulated emission depletion microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
stimulated Raman scattering → Raman scattering
stress rods → polarization-maintaining fibers
stretched-pulse fiber lasers → mode-locked fiber lasers
sum and difference frequency generation
supermodes → harmonic mode locking
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
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
SNR = signal-to-noise ratio
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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