Keywords beginning with W
On this page you find all our articles on keywords beginning with "W". Further below, you find the acronyms.
(See also: list of products for the letter W.)
waist radius → beam waist
walk-off angle → spatial walk-off
walk-off compensation → spatial walk-off
wave breaking → nonlinear pulse distortion
wave optics: Spotlight 2009-05-22: Interference effects with imbalanced intensity levels
wavefront corrections → adaptive optics
wavefront distortions → beam quality
waveguide modes → modes
waveguides: Tutorial chapter on guided light
wavelength: Wavelength or optical frequency - what is the better specification?
wavelength: At which wavelength will a laser emit?
wavelength beam combining → spectral beam combining
wavelength calibration lamps → spectral lamps
wavelength division multiplexing
wavelength meters → wavemeters
wavelength tuning: Spotlight 2009-12-08: Increased output power of a laser with forced tuning
wavelength tuning: Spotlight 2008-10-03: Wavelength-tunable lasers: does the tuner degrade the power efficiency?
wavelength-stabilized lasers → frequency-stabilized lasers
wavelength-tunable lasers → tunable lasers
wavelength-tunable light sources
weakly allowed transitions → forbidden transitions
welding heads → laser processing heads
White cells → multipass gas cells
Wiener–Khinchin theorem → power spectral density
wire grid polarizers → polarizers