Keywords beginning with L
On this page you find all our encyclopedia articles on keywords beginning with "L". Indented lines indicate articles on related topics. 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 gain media
Spotlight 2019-11-19: Why are large mode areas problematic?
Spotlight 2007-04-28: Easier launching into fibers with large mode area?
Spotlight 2007-02-04: Continuing struggle for larger fiber mode areas
Spotlight 2006-08-10: Single-mode fibers with large mode areas
laser amplifiers → optical amplifiers
Spotlight 2009-04-17: Miniature laser projectors – The next big laser thing?
laser beam combining → beam combining
laser beam quality → beam quality
laser beam shapers → beam shapers
laser beam shutters → beam shutters
Spotlight 2015-02-05: Attenuating laser beams – not that easy
Spotlight 2010-04-08: Creating a top-hat laser beam focus
Spotlight 2009-11-22: The beam focus – not just a demagnified version of your beam
laser cavities → laser resonators
laser communications → free-space optical communications
laser cross sections → transition cross sections
Spotlight 2017-01-27: Second opinion: a useful tool, also in laser technology!
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 disks → thin-disk lasers
laser distance meters → distance measurements with lasers
laser dyes → dye lasers
laser energy meters → optical energy meters
laser fibers → rare-earth-doped fibers
laser gain → gain
laser gain media → gain media
laser glasses → laser crystals versus glasses
laser goggles → eye protection
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 media → gain media
Spotlight 2006-10-26: Residual transmission through highly reflecting mirrors
Spotlight 2017-12-04: Energy levels of solid-state gain media
Spotlight 2012-02-03: Simulation software: use commercial products or home-made software?
Spotlight 2006-11-16: Laser models – not always useful
What makes a good physics model
laser modules → laser heads
Spotlight 2006-10-09: Correct specifications for laser noise – valuable but hard to obtain
Spotlight 2006-08-20: Lower noise from longer lasers
laser oscillators → lasers
Spotlight 2020-03-16: Laser physics helps to understand the corona virus crisis
Spotlight 2010-01-11: Beams of laser pointers: visible in air?
Spotlight 2009-04-06: Laser pointers in soccer games: not necessarily harmless
laser power meters → optical power meters
laser pulses → pulses
laser pump chambers → pump chambers
laser radar → LIDAR
laser radiation → laser light
laser refrigeration → optical refrigeration
laser resonator design → resonator design
laser rods → rod lasers
Spotlight 2007-12-18: The role of laser safety goggles
Spotlight 2007-07-06: Promoting dangerous practices in laser labs
Spotlight 2007-07-01: Nonsensical regulations undermine laser safety
Spotlight 2006-12-16: Dangerous green laser pointers
Spotlight 2013-12-13: Avoiding trouble with laser specifications
Spotlight 2020-03-16: Laser physics helps to understand the corona virus crisis
Spotlight 2007-01-21: Operation far above threshold
Spotlight 2011-03-13: What if solid-state laser transitions would be much stronger?
laser transmitters → free-space optical communications
Spotlight 2015-11-28: How to store light – and to understand the laser principle
Spotlight 2008-05-25: Einstein and the laser
Spotlight 2007-08-27: Distant healing of lasers
Spotlight 2007-02-22: Lossy laser cavities
Spotlight 2006-08-23: Lasers with nonlinear input–output characteristics
At which wavelength will a laser emit?
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
lifetime broadening → gain bandwidth
light absorption → absorption
light choppers → optical choppers
light detection and ranging → LIDAR
light diffusers → diffusers
Spotlight 2006-10-22: Lasers attract dust to cavity mirrors
light-induced absorption → photodarkening
light intensity → optical intensity
light pulses → pulses
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
Spotlight 2015-10-17: The linewidth of single-frequency lasers
Spotlight 2008-07-26: Beat signals with zero 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 → multipass 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
luminescence quenching → quenching
luminous efficacy and efficiency
lux → illuminance
luxmeters → photometers
Acronyms beginning with L
LAS = laser absorption spectroscopy
laser = light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
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
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
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