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PAPERBACK price:$14.95 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century Other Related Titles Photonics: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era (1988) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (CPSMA) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix F: Glossary." Photonics: Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1988. Please select a format: Page 98   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore Page 98 Front Matter (R1-R10) Executive Summary (1-5) 1. Introduction (6-8) 2. Opportunities in Telecommunications (9-22) 3. Opportunities in Information Processing (23-37) 4. Opportunities in Storage and Display (38-50) 5. Opportunities in Sensor Technology (51-64) 6. Policy Issues and Recommendations (65-74) Appendix A: Panel and Subcommittee Members (75-78) Appendix B: Workshop and Other Outside Speakers (79-80) Appendix C: Selected Professional Societies, Journals, Review Articles, and Reports (81-83) Appendix D: Technology Status of Optical Telecommunications (84-94) Appendix E: Fiber-Optic Sensor Performance (95-97) Appendix F: Glossary (98-100)

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Appendix F Glossary APD avalanche photodiode BH laser buried heterostructure laser BISON broadband integrated services digital network Bragg cell acousto-optic cell C3 laser cleaved-coupled cavity laser CCD charge-coupled device chirping change of frequency during a pulse interval CID charge-injection device CMOS capacity-coupled metal-o~nde silicon devices CRT cathode-ray tube DF13 distributed feedback (laser) DRAM dynamic random access memory EL electroluminescent EMI electromagnetic interference FPA focal plane array GaAs FET gallium arsenide field effect transistor GaAs/AlGaAs gallium arsenide/aluminum gallium arsenide GHz gigahertz HgCdTe mercury-cadmium telluride InP indium phosphide InSb indium antimonide IR infrared radiation IRST IR search and track (radar) LED light-emitting diode 98

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APPENDIX F 99 LiNbO3 lithium niobate MBE molecular-beam epitaxy MOCVD metallo-organic chemical vapor deposition MOS metal-oxide semiconductor Nd-YAG neodymium-yttrinm-aluminum garnet (laser) OEIC optoelectronic integrated circuit PIN photodiode made using three layers composed of p-type, intrinsic, and e-type semiconductors SAGM APD separate absorption and graded multiplication avalanche photodiode SAM APD separate absorption multiplication avalanche photodiode SAR synthetic aperture radar SCBR silicon chip Bragg rejector (laser) SNR signal-to-noise ratio TDI time-delay integration VLSI very large-scale integrated (circuit) WDM wavelength-division multiplexing

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