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monochromatic light

Light consisting of a single wavelength or a very narrow band of wavelengths.

monochromator

A monochromator is an optical instrument used to isolate and select a narrow range of wavelengths from a broader spectrum of light. The term monochromator is derived from "monochromatic," meaning...

monochrome

Made up of a single color.

monoclinic

With respect to a crystal, a monoclinic crystal consists of three unequal axes, two of which intersect each other obliquely and yet still form right angles to the third.

monocoil sheathing

A type of tubing used to protect optical fiber cables, consisting of a wire spiral of aluminum, galvanized steel or stainless steel, encased in a polyvinyl chloride or silicon rubber coating. These...

monocular

1. Viewed with one eye. 2. Describing an image as viewed from a single angle.

monocyte

A monocyte is a type of white blood cell (leukocyte) that is part of the innate immune system. Monocytes are produced in the bone marrow and circulate in the bloodstream. They are characterized by...

monoergic

Pertaining to radiation or particle emission, whereby the emission is produced with minimal energy spread.

monolithic device

A device that is fabricated in a single piece; A device (i.e. circuit) that is operated at a single frequency or a single class of frequencies.

monolithic lenslet module

An array of refractive microlenses that are round, square and hexagonal and as small as 15 µm. They are used for Hartmann testing, laser diode collimation and other applications that require...

monomer

A molecule that has the ability to chemically combine with other molecules to form a polymer, hence being capable of being polymerized. See polymer; polymerization

monomer exchange diffusion

Process that occurs when a polymerized soft plastic rod with higher refractive index is placed in a bath of a lower refractive-index monomer to obtain plastic fibers with a nearly parabolic index...

monomode optical waveguide -> single-mode waveguide (or fiber)

An optical waveguide in which only the lowest order bound mode, which may consist of a pair of orthogonally polarized fields, can propagate at the wavelength of interest.

monoscope cathode-ray tube

A character generation CRT that functions on the principle of secondary emission. The target holds a set of aluminum characters, select characters being scanned by the electron beam. The secondary...

monostable display

A matrix-controlled display that has no information storage at the display surface.

Monte Carlo simulation

Simulation of radiative transfer in which each photon is generated by a source and its path through the medium is statistically simulated with absorption and scattering probabilities as well as with...

MOPA

master oscillator power amplifier

MOPC

magneto-optical photonic crystal

MOPS

million operations per second

morphological processing

A set of algorithms used to study the structural and spatial characteristics of objects in a digitized image for applications including feature extraction and image segmentation in machine vision and...

morphology

In image processing, the study of structure or form of objects in an image.

MOS

metal-oxide semiconductor

mosaic

One surface of a nonconducting plate that is coated with many minute particles of photoemissive material that are insulated from one another.

mosaic detector array

A group of photosensors arranged in a grid-like pattern covering the entire field of view, enabling them to record it all at once (as a camera records an image on film) rather than by scanning parts...

mosaic mirror

A large telescope mirror fabricated from several smaller sections.

mosaic structure

In a crystal, its subdivision into polyhedral blocks of macroscopic sizes, with discontinuities contained in the lattice formation between them.

MOSFET

metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor

Mossbauer effect spectroscopy

Spectroscopy characterized by the Mossbauer effect - recoilless emission and absorption of nuclear gamma radiation- which investigates miniscule changes in the energy levels of atomic nuclei in...

MOT

magneto-optical trap

motion controller

In optics, a motion controller refers to a device or system that precisely controls the movement of optical components, such as mirrors, lenses, stages, or other elements within an optical setup. The...

motion picture camera

A camera equipped with a lens and a long length of perforated film, the latter being moved intermittently between exposures by a pulldown claw or sprocket. A rotating shutter serves to cut off the...

motion sensing

Capacity of a vision system to capture an image of an object in motion and to resolve the direction and speed of that motion.

motorized positioning equipment

Motorized positioning equipment in optics and photonics refers to devices and systems that use motors to precisely control the position and movement of optical components and instruments. These...

MOTU

mobile optical tracking unit

mount

See gimbal mount; kinematic mount; lens mount.

mounting cement

An adhesive used to hold optical components in their mounts. It may be a thermoplastic or chemical-hardening substance.

movement parallax

The visual phenomenon of the apparent difference in the rate of motion of two objects that are actually moving at the same velocity but that lie at different distances from the observer.

movement parallax threshold

The unequal angular velocities of two objects moving at equal speeds but at different distances from the observer, which are just noticeable.

moving aperture technique

Method for reducing laser speckle in which the object field comes from a real diffuse object or the reconstructed object field from a hologram. During recording of the image, an aperture is moved in...

MOVPE

metallorganic vapor phase epitaxy

megapixel

melting point

MP/s

megapixels per second

MPD

mode-power distribution

MPE

maximum permissible exposure

MPI

magnetic particle imaging

MPI

Michelson polarizing inter-ferometer; multiphoton ionization

MPSK

multiple phase shift keying

MQW

multiple quantum well

MRA

magnetic resonance angiography

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