Abbreviations/Acronyms

active-cavity radiometer

Abbe refractometer; acoustic radiometer; acoustic resonance; active region; alpha ray; amplitude ratio; antireflective; aperture ratio; applied research; argon; aspect ratio; atomic reactor; augmented reality

active swept frequency interferometer radar

ampere second meter

blur diameter

barometer

cubic centimeters

centimeter-gram-second

closed-loop adaptive single parameter

centimeter

centimeter per second

current transfer ratio; cloud-top radiometer

dekaNewton meter

diameter

digital multimeter

electrically calibrated pyroelectric radiometer

extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer

electron parameter resonance

electrical substitution radiometer; electron spin resonance

femtometer

Gires-Tournois interferometer

high-resolution infrared radiometer

inside diameter

imaging photopolarimeter

infrared intelligent spectro-radiometer; infrared interferometer spectrometer

kilogram-meter

kilometer

lines per millimeter

laser absorption spectrometer; light-activated switch; local alignment system

laser Doppler velocimeter

laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory

laser unequal path interferometer

micron (also referred to as the micrometer)- which represents one millionth, i.e. 10-6 of the SI unit for length that is the meter.

meter;mass;milli- m is the standard unit symbol for length in the International System of Units (SI). 1 meter is equivalent to 3.28 feet. m is also the standard symbol for mass; m is also the standard SI metric unit prefix milli- which represents one thousandth i.e. 10-3, of a given unit.

mode-field diameter

meter-kilogram-second

millimeter

Mars Observer Laser Altimeter

Michelson polarizing inter-ferometer; multiphoton ionization

nanometer

Newton meter

optical coherence domain reflectometer

optical continuous wave reflectometer

optical density; outside diameter

optical frequency domain reflectometer

optical time-domain reflectometer

picometer

potentiometer

remote active spectrometer

standard cubic centimeter