Keywords beginning with C
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "C". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter C.)
C band → optical fiber communications
calibration lamps → spectral lamps
calorimeters → optical energy meters
camera sensors → image sensors
candela → luminous intensity
carbon dioxide lasers → CO2 lasers
carrier lifetime → upper-state lifetime
cascade lasing → cooperative lasing
caustic → beam quality
cavity bandwidth → resonator modes
cavity design → resonator design
cavity dumpers → pulse pickers
cavity modes → resonator modes
cavity resonances → resonator modes
CCD sensors → image sensors
chalcogenide fibers → mid-infrared fibers
characterization of laser beams → laser beam characterization
charge injection devices → image sensors
chemical lasers → gas lasers
chemical vapor deposition → fiber fabrication
chillers → laser cooling units
chillers for lasers → laser cooling units
chirp: Spotlight 2008-02-03: Quantifying the chirp of ultrashort pulses
chirped fiber Bragg gratings → fiber Bragg gratings
chirped mirrors: How to design multilayer optical devices
chirped pulses → chirp
chirped-pulse amplification: Case study: Chirped-pulse ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier system
chirped-pulse amplification: Spotlight 2017-08-01: Fiber amplifiers: modeling of ultrashort pulse amplification with saturation of wavelength-dependent gain
choppers → optical choppers
chromatic dispersion: Tutorial chapter on the chromatic dispersion of optical fibers
chromium-doped laser gain media
circle of confusion → imaging with a lens
circular multipass cells → multipass gas cells
cladding → fiber cladding
cladding pumping: Tutorial chapter on double-clad fibers
cladding pumping: Case study: pump absorption in a double-clad fiber
cladding pumping: Case study: cladding-pumped high-power ytterbium-doped fiber laser
cladding-pumped fibers → double-clad fibers
class-A and class-B regime of a laser → relaxation oscillations
cleaner cavities → mode cleaners
cleavers → fiber cleavers
CMOS sensors → image sensors
coatings → dielectric coatings
coherence: Spotlight 2009-11-03: Coherent light from a bulb?
coherence: Spotlight 2009-06-23: Coherence – a black-or-white issue?
coherence: Spotlight 2008-04-22: Abused photonics terms: coherence
coherence function → coherence time
coherence length: Spotlight 2006-09-22: Coherence length of ultrashort pulses
coherent detection → optical heterodyne detection
coherent time-resolved spectroscopy → time-resolved spectroscopy
cold cathode fluorescent lamps → fluorescent lamps
collimation optics → collimated beams
color filters → optical filters
coma → optical aberrations
comb spectra → frequency combs
compact fluorescent lamps → fluorescent lamps
complex degree of temporal coherence → coherence time
complex reflection coefficient → reflectivity
complex refractive index → refractive index
concentration of dopant → doping concentration
concentration quenching → quenching
confocal microscopy → confocal scanning microscopes
confocal parameter → Rayleigh length
conical emission → laser-induced breakdown
connectors for fibers → fiber connectors
constringence → Abbe number
contact bonding → optical contact bonding
cooling units for lasers → laser cooling units
copper vapor lasers → metal vapor lasers
core → fiber core
coupled-mode theory → mode coupling
cross lasers → alignment lasers
cross relaxation → energy transfer
cross-phase modulation: Spotlight 2008-02-12: Factor 2 in the equation for cross-phase modulation
cross-sections → transition cross-sections
crystalline fibers → single-crystal fibers
current amplifiers: Spotlight 2006-10-16: Using a current amplifier for optical power measurements and recording with a photodiode
cutting heads → laser processing heads
cycle jitter → timing jitter
Acronyms with C
CCFL = cold cathode fluorescent lamp
CCT = correlated color temperature
CEO = carrier–envelope offset
CEP = carrier–envelope phase → carrier–envelope offset
CFL = compact fluorescent lamp
CID = charge injection device → image sensors
CLSM = confocal scanning microscope
CPA = chirped-pulse amplification
CRI = color rendering index
CWDM = coarse wavelength division multiplexing