Keywords beginning with Q
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "Q". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter Q.)
q parameter → Gaussian beams
Q switching: Spotlight 2017-04-12: Does a saturable absorber in a laser lead to passive Q switching or mode locking?
Q switching: Spotlight 2009-03-07: Complicated pulse shapes from Q-switched fiber lasers
Q switching: Spotlight 2014-04-02: Lower Emission Cross-section Leads to Higher Pulse Energy?!?
Q switching: Case study: actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
Q switching: Case study: passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
Q-switched lasers: Spotlight 2015-09-24: Q-switched lasers: Nd:YVO_4 better suited than Nd:YAG for high pulse repetition rates
Q-switched lasers: Spotlight 2006-09-16: Q-switched lasers: YAG versus vanadate
Q-switched mode locking: Spotlight 2017-04-12: Does a saturable absorber in a laser lead to passive Q switching or mode locking?
QML threshold → Q-switched mode locking
quadrant photodiodes → position-sensitive detectors
quadrature squeezing → squeezed states of light
quality factor → Q factor
quantum beat spectroscopy → time-resolved spectroscopy
quantum noise: Spotlight 2007-04-16: Questions and answers on shot noise
quantum optics: Spotlight 2008-05-05: Length of a photon
quantum optics: Spotlight 2007-09-27: Light plus light = darkness: no energy problem, but quantum weirdness
quantum optics: Spotlight 2007-03-23: Explaining the nature of photons to lay persons
quantum yield → quantum efficiency
quarter-wave plates → waveplates
quasi-continuous-wave operation
quasi-monochromatic light → monochromatic light
quasi-three-level gain media: Spotlight 2018-08-22: What is different for quasi-three-level lasers?
quasi-three-level gain media: Spotlight 2017-03-15: Interesting features of over-long fiber lasers
quasi-three-level gain media: Spotlight 2006-08-12: Understanding quasi-three-level lasers
quasi-three-level laser gain media
quenching: Spotlight 2006-09-06: Quenching degrades the efficiency of some ytterbium-doped gain media
quenching: Modeling pair-induced quenching in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
questions: Spotlight 2020-05-11: Digital and interactive methods of supporting the photonics industry
Acronyms with Q
QCL = quantum cascade laser
QPM = quasi-phase matching