TABLE OF CONTENTS | ALA, | 5-aminolevulinic acid | |
| APD, | avalanche photodiode | |
| BBO, | ?-barium borate | |
| CCD, | charge coupled device | |
| CFD, | constant-fraction discriminators | |
| COIL, | chemical oxygen iodine laser | |
| COT, | cyclooctatetraene | |
| CW (or cw), | continuous wave | |
| DBR, | distributed Bragg reflector | |
| DFB, | distributed feedback | |
| FAD, | flavin adenine dinucleotide | |
| FCS, | fluorescence correlation spectroscopy | |
| FD, | frequency domain | |
| FD-ODL, | frequency-domain optical delay line | |
| FISH, | fluorescence in situ hybridization | |
| FLIM, | fluorescence lifetime imaging | |
| FRAP, | fluorescence recovery after photobleaching | |
| FRET, | fluorescence resonance energy transfer | |
| FWHM, | full-width at half-maximum | |
| GDD, | group delay dispersion | |
| GFP, | green fluorescent protein | |
| GRINSCH, | graded-index separate confinement heterostructure | |
| GVD, | group velocity dispersion | |
| HB LED, | high-brightness light-emitting diode | |
| Hb, | deoxy-hemoglobin | |
| HbO 2, | oxy-hemoglobin | |
| HWHM, | half-width at half-maximum | |
| LED, | light-emitting diode | |
| MBE, | molecular beam epitaxy | |
| MOVPE, | metal-organic, vapour phase epitaxy | |
| NAD, | nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide | |
| NIR, | near-infrared | |
| NSOM, | near-field scanning fluorescence microscopy | |
| OCM, | optical coherence microscopy | |
| OCT, | optical coherence tomography | |
| OLED, | organic light-emitting diode | |
| OMA, | optical multichannel analyzer | |
| OPO, | optical parametric oscillators | |
| PCR, | polymerase chain reaction | |
| PDT, | photodynamic therapy | |
| PMT, | photomultiplier tube | |
| QCL, | quantum cascade laser | |
| S/N, | signal-to-noise (ratio) | |
| SAD, | seasonal affective disorder | |
| SAM, | self-amplitude modulation | |
| SCH, | separate confinement heterostructure | |
| SNR, | signal-to-noise ratio | |
| SPM, | self-phase modulation | |
| TAC, | time-to-amplitude converter | |
| TCSPC, | time-correlated single-photon counting | |
| TD, | time domain | |
| TEA, | transversely excited atmosphere |
