Abbreviations/Acronyms

integrated optical logic circuit

large-core plastic optical fiber

Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (of IEEE)

ladar fiber optic sensor

local integrated optical network

longitudinal optical; local oscillator

large optical cavity

Leningrad Optical Mechanical Organization

mega;magnification -SI metric unit prefix which represents one million, 106, also the standard symbol for the magnification of a given optical system.

megacycles per second — Megacyces per second is an oscillation rate equivalent to one million (or 106) of the standard unit of a single optical period over a second which is an optical cycle.

modulation contrast microscopy; multichip module — modulation contrast microscopy is a unique illumination technique that enhances contrast in an imaging microscope by converting optical gradients into variations in light intensity. Modulation contrast microscopy is found most commonly in live cell imaging, polarization microscopy, phase contrast, and oblique illumination of stained, unstained and birefringent specimens. A multichip module is an electronic packaging system where multiple discrete electronic components (integrated circuits, semiconductor diodes, etc.) are packaged in various ways onto a single substrate.

mercury cadmium telluride — Mercury cadmium teluride (HgCdTe) is a specific alloy combination that allows one to obtain any optical absorption bandgap of the material between 0 and 1.5 electron volts (eV) making it completely transparent at photon energies and wavelengths below the energy gap in the infrared.

metal-dielectric multilayer (MDM) — Periodic nanofilm structures for optical mode confinement and tunneling of resonant surface plasmons.

many-element laser; maximum excess loss (MEL) — the many element laser is a laser unit that consists of N like elements of active materials for support with the mode selection of the laser output. The mode selection properties of a many element laser have been experimentally exploited with as many as 10 like elements. Maximum excess loss is the maximum power lost within a give system (typically a fiber optic communication system) including scattering, dispersion, absorption and coupling loss.

modulation-inducing retrodirective optical system

master oscillation; magneto-optic

micro-optic gyroscope

microwave and optical generation and amplification

magneto-optic Kerr rotation

magneto-optical photonic crystal

magneto-optical trap

mobile optical tracking unit

nonlinear optics

near-field scanning optical microscopy

optical axis

optical add-drop module

optical address light modulator

optical-analog matrix processing

optical computing

optical Chinese character recognition

optical coherence domain reflectometer

optics coupling display unit

optical countermeasure

optically coupled oscillator

optical character recognition; optical character reader

optical coherence tomography

optical character verification

optical continuous wave reflectometer

optical density; outside diameter

optical disc memory

optical distribution network

optical data processing

optical data storage

optical emission spectroscopy

optical frequency domain reflectometer

optical fiber thermometry

optically isolated gate

optical intersatellite link

optical lay-up template; optical line terminator

optical loss test set