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Laser equipment

Pump

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

To excite the lasing medium. (See Optical Pumping or Pumping.)

Pumping

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

Addition of energy (thermal, electrical, or optical) into the atomic population of the laser medium, necessary to produce a state of population inversion.

Q-Switch

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A device that has the effect of a shutter to control the laser resonator's ability to oscillate. Control allows one to spoil the resonator's "Q-factor," keeping it low to prevent lasing action. When ...

Q-Switched Laser

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A laser which stores energy in the laser media to produce extremely short, extremely high intensity bursts of energy.

Radian

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

A unit of angular measure equal to the angle subtended at the center of a circle by a chord whose length is equal to the radius of the circle.

Radiance Brightness

Industrial machinery; Laser equipment

The radiant power per unit solid angle and per unit area of a radiating surface.

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