Keywords beginning with T
tandem OPOs → optical parametric oscillators
tapered laser diodes → broad area laser diodes
telecom windows → optical fiber communications
telecommunications → optical data transmission
TEM modes → resonator modes
temperature phase matching → noncritical phase matching
temporal coherence → coherence
terahertz spectroscopy → optical sampling
thermal depolarization → depolarization loss
Spotlight 2007-07-25: Higher heat generation density, stronger thermal effects?
Spotlight 2007-01-15: Origins of heating in laser crystals
Spotlight 2006-07-10: Strength of thermal lensing effects
thermal powermeters → powermeters
thin-film coatings → dielectric mirrors
third-harmonic generation → frequency tripling
three-level gain media → four-level and three-level gain media
thulium-doped fibers → rare-earth-doped fibers
tilt of pulse fronts → pulse front tilt
Spotlight 2009-05-13: The minimum time–bandwidth product
Spotlight 2009-08-22: Jitter and phase noise of mode-docked fiber lasers
timing noise → timing jitter
tolerances for fiber coupling → fiber joints
top-hat beams → flat-top beams
Spotlight 2008-06-13: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the transform limit
transition-metal-doped gain media
transitions → laser transitions
transparency intensity → four-level and three-level gain media
transversal filters → electronic dispersion compensation
transverse modes → higher-order modes
traveling-wave photodetectors → velocity-matched photodetectors
tunneling modes → leaky modes
tweezers → optical tweezers
two-mirror beam shapers → beam shapers
two-photon microscopy → fluorescence microscopy
type I or type II phase matching → phase matching
Acronyms beginning with T
TDM = time division multiplexing
TOD = third-order dispersion
TPA = two-photon absorption
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