Abbreviations/Acronyms

picosecond

position-sensing detector; pseudo-second derivative

power spectrum equalization

point spread function

pounds per square inch

pounds per square inch absolute

pounds per square inch gauge

phase-shift keying

photon scanning tunneling microscope

active pixel sensor; active pixel system; Advanced Photon Source; American Physical Society; atom probe spectroscopy; autocorrelated photon spectroscopy

binary phase shift keying

communications, information and processing services

cathode potential stabilization

cycles per second

differential phase shift keying

diode-pumped solid-state laser

European Physical Society

floating point operations per second

frames per second; fixed pattern signal

Fourier transfer phase-shifting interferometry

global positioning system

joint services image processing system

kilocycles per second

thousand pounds per square inch

lateral transitional phase shift

megacycles per second

million instructions per second

million operations per second

multiple phase shift keying

optical power spectrum

pulses per second

periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate

quadrature phase-shift keying

revolutions per second

solar power satellite

Society for Imaging Science and Technology

single pole/single throw

absolute (kelvin degrees), absorption, acoustic, alpha particle, analog, anode, ampere, amplitude, area, atomic, atomic mass, Helmholtz free energy, mass number, nucleon number

acousto-optic

attoampere

analog to analog, anti-aliasing (AA optical filter e.g. low pass filter), approximate absolute temperature, atomic absorption

Analog Adaptive Resonance Theory

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

software package Atmospheric Correction Now

acquisition control processor

AC thin film electroluminescent display devices

adaptive delta modulation; add-drop multiplexer

ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, adaptive Doppler processing

adaptive differential pulse code modulation; varies the binary step interval for the required bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio.

angular displacement sensor