Acronyms

2DEG		two-dimensional electron gas
2PA		two photon absorption
III-V		Group III, group V of periodic table
3HG		third harmonic generation
AEL		accessible emission limit
AFRRG		Active Fiber Ring Resonator Gyroscope
AM		amplitude modulation
AMVSB		Amplitude Modulation Vestigal Side Band
ANSI		American National Standards Institute
AO		acousto-optic
AON		All Optical Networks
APD		avalanche photodiode
APDs		avalanche photodiodes
APM		additive pulse mode locking
AR		anti reflection
ARFG		Active Reentrant Fiber Gyroscope
ASE		amplified spontaneous emission
AWG		arrayed waveguide grating
BEFWM		Brillouin enhanced four wave mixing
BFA		Brillouin fiber amplifier
BH		buried heterostructure
BLIP		background-limited infrared performance
C/S		coupler/splitter
CAD		computer-aided design
CAIBE		chemically assisted ion-beam etching
CARS		coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy
CBE		chemical beam epitaxy
CCD		charge coupled device
CDRH		Center for Devices and Radiological Health (of FDA)
CET		Cooperative Energy Transfer
Ch		choroid
CID		charge-injection device
CIE		Commission International de I Eclairage
CMBH		capped mesa buried heterostructure
COD		catastrophic optical damage
CPM		colliding-pulse mode-locked
CSBC		channel substrate buried crescent
CSO		composite second order
cw		continuous wave
D*		detectivity
DBR		distributed Bragg reflector
DCG		dichromated gelatin
DCPBH		double channel planar buried heterostructure
DFB		distributed feedback
DFDL		distributed feedback dye lasers
DIN		Deutsche Instit t f r Normung

DM		depth of modulation
DODCI		diethyloxadicarbon-cyanine iodide
DOES		double heterostructure...

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