- gratings
- grat·ing || 'greɪtɪŋ n. network of parallel metal bars or wires, grill, grid, grate adj. scraping, abrading; irritating; oppressive; making a harsh or abrasive noise, discordant
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Optical axis gratings — (OAGs) are gratings of optical axis of a birefringent material. In OAGs, the birefringence of the material is constant, while the direction of optical axis is periodically modulated in a fixed direction. In this way they are different from the… … Wikipedia
Microbend gratings — Microbend grating is a convenient method to couple light from one guided fiber mode into another. Due to its antisymmetric nature of perturbation, it can be used to couple only into antisymmetric modes. Microbend gratings are easily tunable for a … Wikipedia
Diffraction grating — A very large reflecting diffraction grating. In optics, a diffraction grating is an optical component with a periodic structure, which splits and diffracts light into several beams travelling in different directions. The directions of these beams … Wikipedia
Fiber Bragg grating — A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a type of distributed Bragg reflector constructed in a short segment of optical fiber that reflects particular wavelengths of light and transmits all others. This is achieved by adding a periodic variation to the… … Wikipedia
Grating — A grating is any regularly spaced collection of essentially identical, parallel, elongated elements. Gratings usually consist of a single set of elongated elements, but can consist of two sets, in which case the second set is usually… … Wikipedia
Monochromator — in a x ray beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. A monochromator is an optical device that transmits a mechanically selectable narrow band of wavelengths of light or other radiation chosen from a wider range of… … Wikipedia
Electromagnetically induced grating — (EIG) is a physics phenomenon based on light interference (or, more generally, on electromagnetic fields) where an interference pattern is used to build a dynamic spatial diffraction grating in matter. Introduction Electromagnetically induced… … Wikipedia
Chirped pulse amplification — Diagramatic scheme of chirped pulse amplification. Chirped pulse amplification (CPA) is a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse up to the petawatt level with the laser pulse being stretched out temporally and spectrally prior to… … Wikipedia
McCollough effect — (click to enlarge) A test image for the McCollough effect. On first looking at this image, the vertical and horizontal lines should look black and white, colourless. After induction (see images below), the horizontal lines should look greenish… … Wikipedia
Long-period fiber grating — A long period fiber grating is an optical fiber structure with the properties periodically varying along the fiber, such that the conditions for the interaction of several copropagating modes are satisfied. The period of such a structure is of… … Wikipedia
