Links to the Encyclopedia

You are welcome to place HTML links to this encyclopedia (or any individual article of this website) on your own website or on other resource where you can do that.

If you want to learn about citations (part of which may be a link), read our page on citation the encyclopedia. In the following, we treat only simple links.

Benefits of Linking

First of all, it helps your readers. They get highly useful explanations on many topics throughout photonics.
It saves your time. Instead of formulating your own explanations (for example, in product descriptions or in educational materials), you can refer to our texts.
There can be a positive SEO effect for your website: search engines consider it positive if a site links to authoritative pages, which users like. As a result, your own page ranking may improve.

How to Make Links

HTML Links

The following explanations are relevant if you need to directly generate HTML code. The code for the encyclopedia as a whole:

  <a href="https://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html">
  RP Photonics Encyclopedia</a>

For an individual article (e.g. the one on fiber amplifiers):

  <a href="https://www.rp-photonics.com/fiber_amplifiers.html">
  fiber amplifiers</a>

For example, you may use such links term definitions in your own online articles. An example for a sentence of the HTML form of your article could be:

  For some kinds of
  <a href="https://www.rp-photonics.com/laser_material_processing.html>laser material processing</a>,
  such as drilling holes, the laser needs to emit energetic pulses, and this is
  usually accomplished with the technique of
  <a href="https://www.rp-photonics.com/q_switching.html">Q switching</a>.

This is sensible because the locations of all the Encyclopedia articles can be considered to be permanent.

Links in Wikipedia

It is possible (and often very sensible) to include links to our pages in Wikipedia. This could look as follows:

== External links ==

* [https://www.rp-photonics.com/fiber_amplifiers.html article on fiber amplifiers in the RP Photonics Encyclopedia]

Please always observe Wikipedia's guidelines.

Use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

Although our page URLs can be considered permanent, to be even more sure about that, you can use digital object identifiers. For each article, you find that in the box below the article heading. For example, for the article on fiber amplifiers it is 10.61835/jpw. The full DOI link URL: https://doi.org/10.61835/jpw. So your HTML link would be:

<a href="https://doi.org/10.61835/jpw">fiber amplifiers</a>

Such links redirect users to the pages of our website. Should we ever need to move the pages to some other addresses, we would update the DOI system (operated by Crossref) accordingly, so that the DOI links would still work.