ABCD matrix
absolute phase
absorption cross sections
acceptance angle
acousto-optic modulators
active fibers
active laser media
active mirror
active mode locking
active Q switching
adaptive optics
additive-pulse mode locking
adiabatic soliton compression
adjoint modes
alignment sensitivity
all-solid-state lasers
alpha factor
amplification bandwidth
amplification factor
amplified spontaneous emission
amplifier chains
amplifier noise
amplifier stages
amplifiers
amplitude noise
amplitude-squeezed light
angle cleaving
anomalous dispersion
anti-reflection coatings
anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling
aperiodic fiber gratings
applications of lasers
arc lamp pumping
arrayed waveguide gratings
artificial saturable absorbers
asynchronous sampling
athermal lasers
atmospheric correction
attosecond pulses
autocorrelators
avalanche photodiodes
axial modes
B integral
bandwidth
bandwidth-distance product
bandwidth-limited pulses
beam collimation
beam diameter
beam divergence
beam parameter product
beam pointing fluctuations
beam profilers
beam quality
beam radius
beam shapers
beam waist
beat note
bend losses
birefringence
birefringent phase matching
birefringent tuners
birefringent walk-off
bit error rate
blue lasers
Bragg grating sensors
Bragg gratings
Bragg mirrors
breakdown
Brewster plates
brightness converters
brightness of a laser
Brillouin scattering
broad-area laser diodes
broadband light sources
bulk lasers
bulk lasers vs. fiber lasers
C band
cameras
carbon dioxide lasers
carrier-envelope offset
causality
caustic
cavities
cavity design
cavity dumpers
cavity dumping
cavity modes
ceramic gain media
chemiluminescence
chirp
chirped mirrors
chirped pulses
chirped-pulse amplification
chromatic dispersion
chromium-doped gain media
cladding
cladding modes
cladding-pumped fibers
cleaner cavities
clustering
CO2 lasers
coherence
coherence function
coherence length
coherence time
coherent states
collimated beams
collimation optics
color filters
comb spectra
complex refractive index
composite laser crystals
concentration of dopant
concentration quenching
confocal microscopy
confocal parameter
conical emission
continuous-wave operation
cooperative lasing
core
core-less end caps
critical phase matching
cross relaxation
cross sections
cross-phase modulation
cryogenic lasers
cycle jitter
data transmission
decibel
delayed self-heterodyne interferometer
depolarization loss
depressed cladding
diameter of laser beam
diameter-divergence product
dichroic mirrors
dielectric coatings
dielectric mirrors
difference-frequency generation
diffraction-limited beams
diffusion bonding
diode arrays
diode bars
diode lasers
diode modules
diode stacks
diode-pumped lasers
disks
dispersion
dispersion compensation
dispersion relations
dispersion-compensation modules
dispersion-decreasing fibers
dispersion-flattened fibers
dispersion-shifted fibers
dispersive mirrors
dispersive pulse compression
dispersive wave
distance measurements with lasers
distributed amplifiers
distributed feedback lasers
distributed sensing
divergence angle
doped insulator lasers
doping concentration
Doppler broadening
Doppler cooling
Doppler limit
double pulses
double refraction
double-chirped mirrors
double-clad fibers
doubly resonant cavities
doubly resonant oscillators
dual-stage amplifiers
duty cycle
dye lasers
edge-emitting semiconductor lasers
effective cross sections
effective mode area
effective refractive index
effective step-index profile
effectively single-mode fibers
efficiency of a laser
electric-field poling
electroabsorption modulators
electroluminescence
electron beam evaporation
electronic dispersion compensation
electro-optic effect
electro-optic field mapping
electro-optic modulators
electro-optic sampling
emission cross sections
end pumping
endlessly single-mode fibers
energy migration
energy of laser pulses
energy transfer
enhancement cavities
entropy balance of lasers
erbium-doped fibers
etalons
excess noise
excimer lasers
excited state absorption
external cavity diode lasers
eye protection
eye-safe lasers