Abbreviations/Acronyms

modulator-demodulator

The ABg model or Harvey-Shack is a method of describing bidirectional scattering from isotropic or polished surfaces.

asynchronous transfer mode

capacitive discharge mode

current mode logic

cladding mode suppression

colliding pulse mode

digital elevation model

dispersion-flattened single mode

dynamic scattering mode

equilibrium mode distribution

excimer moderate-power Raman shifted laser device

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.

mode-field diameter

modelocked

multimode

multimode laser diode

mode-power distribution

physical media-dependent; polarization mode dispersion

polarization mode dispersion compensator

photon tunneling microscope; pulse transmission mode

single longitudinal mode; spatial light modulator

single mode

side mode suppression ratio

scanning tunneling microscope; synchronous transfer mode

virtual reality modeling language

external modulator