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:
→ Case study: actively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
→ Case study: passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser
→ Spotlight 2009-03-07: Complicated pulse shapes from Q-switched fiber lasers
→ Spotlight 2014-04-02: Lower Emission Cross-section Leads to Higher Pulse Energy?!?
→ 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
Q-switched lasers:
→ Spotlight 2006-09-16: Q-switched lasers: YAG versus vanadate
→ Spotlight 2015-09-24: Q-switched lasers: Nd:YVO_4 better suited than Nd:YAG for high pulse repetition rates
Q-switched mode locking:
→ Spotlight 2017-04-12: Does a saturable absorber in a laser lead to passive Q switching or 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 2007-03-23: Explaining the nature of photons to lay persons
→ Spotlight 2007-09-27: Light plus light = darkness: no energy problem, but quantum weirdness
→ Spotlight 2008-05-05: Length of a photon
quantum yield → quantum efficiency
quarter-wave plates → waveplates
quasi-continuous-wave operation
quasi-monochromatic light → monochromatic light
quasi-three-level gain media:
→ Spotlight 2006-08-12: Understanding quasi-three-level lasers
→ Spotlight 2017-03-15: Interesting features of over-long fiber lasers
→ Spotlight 2018-08-22: What is different for quasi-three-level lasers?
quasi-three-level laser gain media
quasi-three-level lasers → four-level and three-level laser gain media
quenching:
→ Modeling pair-induced quenching in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
→ Spotlight 2006-09-06: Quenching degrades the efficiency of some ytterbium-doped gain media
questions:
→ Spotlight 2020-05-11: Digital and interactive methods of supporting the photonics industry
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