| stable | | Source of loss in optical materials |
| lens | | An inhomogenous broadening process |
| MASER | | Energy per unit time |
| filter | | Norfolk State University mascot |
| resonator | | Equations describe the interrelationship between electric field, magnetic field, electric charge, and electric current |
| Ket | | The distance between crests of a waveform. |
| FWHM | | Imaging technique whereby a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen |
| CCD | | Measure of the time-averaged energy flux |
| Jones | | Polarized light is represented with _____matrices |
| parasitic | | Aluminum |
| spectrum | | Equal to the speed of the wave divided by the wavelength of the wave |
| frequency | | A sensor that collects light and turns it into an electrical signal |
| wave | | Special theory of relativity |
| Rate | | ______ barium borate |
| spartan | | The material surrounding the core of an optical waveguide. |
| refraction | | System of equations that describes the changes in populations of various states |
| interference | | A device that produces an intense, coherent, directional beam of visible light |
| OLED | | A general law describing the reflection, refractoin, and transmission of light from an interface. |
| gain | | Causes the spatial separation of a white light into spectral components |
| Ruby | | Light that is unable to escape from media experience |
| Emission | | first Substance to produce laser action in the visible spectrum |
| LUX | | A device that produces an intense, coherent, directional beam of microwave |
| retina | | The passage of radiant energy through a medium |
| quarks | | Amplification |
| Optics | | Wave phenomenon commonly observed in mirrors |
| speckle | | Photometric measure of the density of luminous intensity in a given direction |
| Einstein | | |W> |
| HeNe | | The generation and sending out of radiant energy |
| snell | | A radio device for detecting the position of distant masses and the course of moving objects. |
| etalon | | Consequence of the high spatial conherency of a Laser |
| beta | | Visible EM radiation |
| Wavelength | | Separation of light into its component wavelengths |
| AL | | Display which uses organic material as a diode type light emitting material |
| prism | | Arrangement of mirrors that forms a standing wave cavity resonator for light waves |
| Nanometer | | gain______ is the reduce in optical gain as the cavity intensity increases |
| LED | | A resonator where the beam is permanently trapped |
| Dispersion | | Light as a particle and a ______ |
| LASER | | Diode such that light emitted at a p-n |
| FSR | | The shape of the Laser _____ can be changed |
| Reflection | | Width of a distribution at half of its maximum value |
| Quantum | | Wedge-shaped piece of glass used to disperse light into a spectrum |
| isotope | | An optical element consisting of two plane parallel reflective surfaces |
| Qswitching | | One billionth of a meter |
| intensity | | A light-sensitive membrane lining the posterior part of the inside of the eye |
| beam | | Superposition of two or more waves resulting in a new wave pattern |
| transmission | | device that selectively transmits light having certain properties |
| Luminance | | |
| TEM | | The bending of light |
| power | | Process of blocking the transmission of the cavity to permit a greater upper state population. |
| Maxwell | | A piece of glass that refracts light |
| Cladding | | Branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light |
| radar | | _______efficiency- percentage of pump band population that transfers to the upper laser state |
| Bra | | The spacing between the modes of a Fabry-Perot etalon |
| Absorption | | Unwanted radiative transition in a laser system |
| TIR | | Gas laser, usual operats at 632.8 nm |
| Light | | photons with the same relative phase are _____ |
| saturation | | metric unit of illuminance |
| coherent | | Fundamental particles, incapable of independent existence, that combine to form particles such as protons and neutrons. |
