Keywords beginning with L
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "L". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter L.)
L band → optical fiber communications
Lambertian emitters and scatterers
lanthanide lasers → rare-earth-doped laser gain media
large mode area fibers: Spotlight 2019-11-19: Why are large mode areas problematic?
large mode area fibers: Spotlight 2007-04-28: Easier launching into fibers with large mode area?
large mode area fibers: Spotlight 2007-02-04: Continuing struggle for larger fiber mode areas
large mode area fibers: Spotlight 2006-08-10: Single-mode fibers with large mode areas
laser amplifiers → optical amplifiers
laser applications: Spotlight 2009-04-17: Miniature laser projectors – The next big laser thing?
laser beam characterization: Spotlight 2007-06-01: Characterize your pump beam!
laser beam combining → beam combining
laser beam delivery systems → beam delivery systems
laser beam machining → laser material processing
laser beam quality → beam quality
laser beam shapers → beam shapers
laser beam shutters → beam shutters
laser beams: Spotlight 2015-02-05: Attenuating laser beams – not that easy
laser beams: Spotlight 2010-04-08: Creating a top-hat laser beam focus
laser beams: Spotlight 2009-11-22: The beam focus – not just a demagnified version of your beam
laser beams: Spotlight 2007-07-11: What is a beam width, beam size, and a beam waist?
laser brazing → laser soldering
laser cavities → laser resonators
laser communications → free-space optical communications
laser cross-sections → transition cross-sections
laser design: Spotlight 2011-02-10: Fiber lasers: more difficult to design than bulk lasers
laser design: Spotlight 2007-04-01: The ideal pump intensity distribution in an end-pumped solid-state laser
laser design: Spotlight 2006-07-05: Laser design: side product or the basis of laser development?
laser development: Spotlight 2017-01-27: Second opinion: a useful tool, also in laser technology!
laser development: Spotlight 2006-07-05: Laser design: side product or the basis of laser development?
laser diode bars → diode bars
laser diode stacks → diode stacks
laser diodes: Spotlight 2009-08-14: Progress on green laser diodes
laser disks → thin-disk lasers
laser distance meters → distance measurements with lasers
laser dyes → dye lasers
laser energy meters → optical energy meters
laser engraving → laser marking
laser eye protection → laser safety glasses
laser fibers → rare-earth-doped fibers
laser gain → gain
laser goggles → laser safety glasses
laser hazards → laser safety
laser line mirrors → laser mirrors
laser line polarizers → thin-film polarizers
laser linewidth → linewidth
laser links → free space optical communications
laser material processing: Spotlight 2022-08-04: Encyclopedia articles on laser material processing
laser media → laser gain media
laser mirrors: Spotlight 2006-11-02: Reflection spectrum of tilted dielectric mirror
laser mirrors: Spotlight 2006-10-26: Residual transmission through highly reflecting mirrors
laser modeling: Tutorial on modeling of fiber amplifiers and lasers
laser modeling: Spotlight 2017-12-04: Energy levels of solid-state gain media
laser modeling: Spotlight 2013-09-24: Simulation of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser: numerical beam propagation reveals what happens, analytical reasoning explains it
laser modeling: Spotlight 2012-02-03: Simulation software: use commercial products or home-made software?
laser modeling: Spotlight 2006-11-16: Laser models – not always useful
laser modeling: Transverse dependencies in fiber amplifier and laser modeling
laser modeling: The transparent laser
laser modeling: What makes a good physics model
laser modules → laser heads
laser noise: Noise in laser technology
laser noise: Spotlight 2006-10-09: Correct specifications for laser noise – valuable but hard to obtain
laser noise: Spotlight 2006-08-20: Lower noise from longer lasers
laser noise: Spotlight 2006-08-01: Lasers disturbed by vacuum?
laser oscillators → lasers
laser physics: Spotlight 2020-03-16: Laser physics helps to understand the corona virus crisis
laser pointers: Spotlight 2010-01-11: Beams of laser pointers: visible in air?
laser pointers: Spotlight 2009-04-06: Laser pointers in soccer games: not necessarily harmless
laser pointers: Spotlight 2006-12-16: Dangerous green laser pointers
laser power meters → optical power meters
laser projectors: Spotlight 2009-04-17: Miniature laser projectors – The next big laser thing?
laser pulses → light pulses
laser pulses: Field Guide to Laser Pulses
laser pulses: Spotlight 2014-04-02: Lower emission cross-section leads to higher pulse energy?!?
laser pump chambers → pump chambers
laser radar → LIDAR
laser radiation → laser light
laser refrigeration → optical refrigeration
laser resonator design → resonator design
laser resonators: Spotlight 2015-05-14: Alignment sensitivity of laser resonators – an important design criterion
laser resonators: Spotlight 2009-09-19: Are laser resonators power scalable?
laser resonators: Spotlight 2009-04-05: Stability of resonators – an ambiguous term
laser resonators: Spotlight 2006-10-01: Stability zones of laser resonators
laser safety: Spotlight 2007-12-18: The role of laser safety goggles
laser safety: Spotlight 2007-07-06: Promoting dangerous practices in laser labs
laser safety: Spotlight 2007-07-01: Nonsensical regulations undermine laser safety
laser safety: Spotlight 2006-12-16: Dangerous green laser pointers
laser specifications: Spotlight 2013-12-13: Avoiding trouble with laser specifications
laser speckle: Spotlight 2007-06-24: The plague of a narrow emission linewidth
laser threshold: Spotlight 2020-03-16: Laser physics helps to understand the corona virus crisis
laser threshold: Spotlight 2007-05-10: Fundamental limitation for sigma–tau product, gain efficiency, and laser threshold
laser threshold: Spotlight 2007-01-21: Laser operation far above threshold
laser transitions: Spotlight 2011-03-13: What if solid-state laser transitions would be much stronger?
laser transmitters → free space optical communications
laser trepanning → laser drilling
laser-active glasses → laser glasses
laser-aided manufacturing → laser material processing
lasers: Can AI bots like Chat-GPT or Bard answer photonics questions?
lasers: Spotlight 2015-11-28: How to store light – and to understand the laser principle
lasers: Spotlight 2008-05-25: Einstein and the laser
lasers: Spotlight 2007-08-27: Distant healing of lasers
lasers: Spotlight 2007-02-22: Lossy laser cavities
lasers: Spotlight 2006-08-23: Lasers with nonlinear input–output characteristics
lasers: At which wavelength will a laser emit?
lasers for material processing
lasers:: Field Guide to Lasers
lateral effect photodiodes → position-sensitive detectors
lateral modes → higher-order modes
launching light into fibers → fiber launch systems
law of Snellius → refraction
LEDs → light-emitting diodes
left-handed metamaterials → photonic metamaterials
lens arrays → microlens arrays
lens speed → f-number
level manifolds → Stark level manifolds
lifetime broadening → gain bandwidth
light absorption → absorption
light choppers → optical choppers
light detection and ranging → LIDAR
light diffusers → diffusers
light forces: Spotlight 2006-10-22: Lasers attract dust to cavity mirrors
light intensity → optical intensity
light pulses: Tutorial on modeling of pulse amplification
light-emitting diodes: Spotlight 2010-09-02: Why LEDs are energy-efficient, and why they could well increase energy consumption
light-induced absorption → photodarkening
lightwave communications → optical data transmission
line lasers → alignment lasers
linear absorption → absorption
linear polarization → polarization of light
linear polarizers → polarizers
linear resonators → standing-wave resonators
linear versus ring resonators → optical resonators
linewidth: Derivation of the Schawlow–Townes linewidth
linewidth: Spotlight 2015-10-17: The linewidth of single-frequency lasers
linewidth: Spotlight 2008-07-26: Beat signals with zero linewidth
linewidth: Spotlight 2007-06-24: The plague of a narrow emission linewidth
lithium niobate and tantalate → nonlinear crystal materials
Littrow gratings → diffraction gratings
long-pass gas cells → gas cells
long-period fiber Bragg gratings → fiber Bragg gratings
long-wave infrared detectors → infrared detectors
longitudinal pumping → end pumping
low pressure discharge lamps → gas discharge lamps
lumen → luminous flux
luminance: Spotlight 2021-03-08: Luminance – a term which is worth some thoughts
luminescence quenching → quenching
luminous efficacy and efficiency
lux → illuminance
luxmeters → photometers
Acronyms with L
LAS = laser absorption spectroscopy
laser = light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
LBAAM = Laser-Based Advanced Additive Manufacturing
LBM = laser beam machining
LBMM = laser beam micromachining
LC modulator = liquid crystal modulator
LCD = liquid crystal display
LCF = large-core fiber
LD = laser diode
LED = light-emitting diode
LEP = lateral effect photodiode → position-sensitive detectors
LGS = laser guide star
LHM = left-handed metamaterials → photonic metamaterials
LIBS = laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
LID = laser-induced damage
LIDAR = light detection and ranging
LIDT = laser-induced damage threshold
LMA fiber = large mode area fiber
LPS lamp = low-pressure sodium lamp