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diamond turning

Diamond turning, also known as diamond machining or diamond cutting, is a precision machining process used to produce high-quality optical surfaces and components with extremely tight tolerances. It...

diamond-turned optic

Diamond turning refers to a precision machining process used to produce complex optical components, particularly lenses and mirrors, from materials such as metals, plastics, and crystalline materials...

diamondlike carbon film

A very hard, highly transparent coating based on forms of carbon, used to protect optical components from abrasion and chemical damage.

diaphragm

A flanged or plain ring with a restricted aperture, located in an optical system at any of several points, that cuts off marginal light rays not essential to image formation. Diaphragms are used as...

diaphragm shutter

A shutter consisting of a ring of interweaving blades that open outward and allow light to pass when they are pivoted at their outer edges.

diascope

1. An optical device used for projection of enlarged images of transparencies or lantern slides on a screen. 2. A device designed to hold and backlight transparencies so that their images can be...

diasporometer

In an optical rangefinder, the system of wedges that rotate in opposite directions to aid in the detection of deviation in the image axis.

diathermic mirror

A mirror coated to reflect cold (white) light while transmitting hot (infrared) energy.

diazo film

A type of photographic film, often used in microfilming, that is processed by heat treatment, needing no liquid application.

DIC

differential interference contrast

dichalcogenide

Dichalcogenides are a class of compounds composed of two atoms of a chalcogen element bonded to a single atom of a metal or metalloid element. Chalcogens are the elements in group 16 of the periodic...

dichroic

Exhibiting the quality of dichroism.

dichroic coating

A dichroic coating, also known as a dichroic filter or dichroic mirror, is an optical coating designed to selectively transmit or reflect certain wavelengths of light while simultaneously absorbing...

dichroic mirror

A dichroic mirror, also known as a dichroic beamsplitter or interference filter beamsplitter, is an optical device that selectively reflects or transmits light based on its wavelength. Dichroic...

dichroic polarizer

A polarizer that consists of dichroic polarizing material embedded in a plastic sheet, and that transmits light that is almost completely plane polarized with an intensity that is half that of the...

dichroic ratio

The ratio between two given absorption coefficients.

dichroism

Dichroism refers to the property of certain materials to exhibit different colors or absorbance of light depending on the direction of light propagation or polarization. The term is commonly used in...

dichroscope

A device used to investigate the dichroism of crystals.

dichroscopic eyepiece

An eyepiece used in a polariscope or polarizing microscope to give a comparison view of the same object under illumination by the two complementary rays of polarized light.

DICOM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DID

digital information display

didymium glass

Glass tinted with mixed oxides of neodymium and praseodymium that, unlike most solid materials, have absorption bands that are very narrow and that have very sharp areas.

die bonding

Die bonding is a critical process in semiconductor manufacturing and microelectronics assembly, where a semiconductor die or chip is attached and electrically connected to a substrate or a package....

dielectric

Exhibiting the characteristic of materials that are electrical insulators or in which an electric field can be sustained with a minimum dispersion of power. They exhibit nonlinear properties, such as...

dielectric coated grating

A shallow, fine-pitch diffraction grating having a precise dielectric overcoating that experimentally has absorbed wavelength-specific incident light that is polarized in the P-plane.

dielectric coating

A high-reflectance coating consisting of alternating layers of quarter-wave film of a higher refractive index and lower refractive index than the substrate. Such coatings can be made very specific to...

dielectric constant

A number that indicates the magnitude of the shift in a solid of positive and negative charges in opposite directions when a voltage is applied across the solid.

dielectric crystal

A crystal that is characterized by its relatively poor electrical conductance.

dielectric cylindrical waveguide

A waveguide made up of a dielectric material, such as plastic or mica, in a cylindrical form, through which the waves travel.

dielectric filter -> interference filter

A filter that controls the spectral composition of transmitted energy partially by the effects of interference. Frequently, these filters are made up of thin layers of metals and dielectrics,...

dielectric lens

A lens made up of a dielectric material that is capable of influencing radio waves much in the same way an optical lens influences light.

difference threshold

The minimum of change in stimulation needed to effect an awareness of change in sensation that is statistically determined.

differential absorption lidar

A lidar (light detection and ranging) technique used in pollution monitoring. Two light beams are emitted simultaneously, one at a wavelength that will be absorbed by the target particles, and the...

differential interference contrast microscopy

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, also known as Nomarski interference contrast microscopy, is an optical imaging technique used in microscopy to enhance the contrast of transparent...

differential interferometer

A device that produces an interferogram that can be directly related to the temperature gradient and thereby provides a direct measure of the convective heat transfer coefficients.

differential mode attenuation

The variation in attenuation among the propagating modes of an optical fiber.

differential mode delay

Differential mode delay (DMD) is a parameter used to characterize the propagation characteristics of optical fibers, particularly in multimode fiber optic systems. It refers to the difference in...

differential phase-shift keying

A type of phase-shift keying using a one-bit delay line.

differential pulse code modulation

A method of coding image data by storing in memory only differences in brightness of each pixel from that of its nearest horizontal neighbors: that is, it is the change in brightness rather than the...

differential quantum efficiency

The slope of the curve when output is plotted against input for quantum efficiency in a device.

differential spectrophotometry

The measurement of the spectrum bands formed by a spectroscopic sample, based on the differences between the sample and the reference cell it is placed in.

diffraction

Diffraction is a fundamental wave phenomenon that occurs when a wave encounters an obstacle or aperture, causing the wave to bend around the edges and spread out. This effect is most commonly...

diffraction angle

The angle that lies between the direction of an incident light beam and any resulting diffracted beam.

diffraction efficiency

Diffraction efficiency is a measure of how effectively a diffractive optical element (DOE) or diffraction grating directs light into specific diffraction orders or achieves a desired optical effect....

diffraction fanning

The formation of a fan of light or energy rays in a beam as the beam passes through an extremely narrow aperture.

diffraction grating spectrograph

A spectrograph that uses a diffraction grating as its dispersive element in place of a prism, and yields greater resolving power, more dispersion and a linear spectrum.

diffraction grating

A diffraction grating is an optical component consisting of a surface with a periodic structure of equally spaced, parallel grooves or rulings. These rulings act as an array of closely spaced slits...

diffraction image -> geometric image

The position and shape of the image of a point source, as predicted by geometric optics alone. The geometric image is to be differentiated from the diffraction image, which is determined from...

diffraction limited

The property of an optical system whereby only the effects of diffraction determine the quality of the image it produces.

diffraction pattern

The interference pattern formed by light waves diffracted at the edges of an object as seen on a screen placed in their path.

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