Glossary
Your go-to resource for understanding Exail's key terms, concepts, and technologies
We regularly update this glossary to reflect evolving standards, emerging technologies, and the latest industry terminology, making it a valuable reference for customers, partners, and anyone looking to expand their technical knowledge.

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- Faraday Effect
- Faraday Rotation
- FBG - Fiber Bragg Grating
- Fiber Amplifier
- Fiber-Based Dosimetry
- Fiber-Based Laser Amplifier
- Fiber-based Sensors for Harsh Environments
- Flight-proven (TRL9) optical components
- FOCS - Fiber-Optic Current Sensing
- Free-Space Micro-Optics
- Frequency transfer
- FWM - Four-Wave Mixing
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- Macrobending
- Magneto-Optic Effect
- Matter-Wave Interferometry
- MCM - Mine Countermeasures
- MFD - Mode Field Diameter
- Micro-Optics
- Microbending
- MINT - Delay Line Interferometer
- MLS - Multi-Branch Laser Station
- Modulator Bias Controller
- Multi-Photon Microscopy
- Multimode Fiber
- MUX/DEMUX
- MZI - Mach-Zehnder Modulator
- M² - Beam Quality Factor
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- Passive Fiber
- PAT - Pointing, Acquisition and Tracking
- PAT - Pointing, Acquisition and Tracking
- PBS - Polarizing Beam Splitter
- PDME - Polarization Division Multiplexing Emulator
- PER - Polarization Extinction Ratio
- PER Fluctuation
- Phase Modulation
- Phase Noise
- Photons
- PM Gyro Fiber
- PMF Collimator
- Pockels Effect
- Polarization Crosstalk
- Polarization Maintaining (PM) Fiber
- Polarization Scrambler
- Polarization Switch
- Polarizing Fiber
- Polyimide
- Population Inversion
- Pump Laser
- Pure Silica Core
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- RAD SM Fiber
- Radiation Sensing
- Radiation-Hardened Components
- Radiation-Hardened Fiber
- Raman Gain
- Raman Scattering
- Rare-Earth Doped Fiber
- Reference optical transmitter
- Refractive Index Profile
- RF Amplifier / RF Driver
- RIA - Radiation-Induced Attenuation
- RIE - Radiation-Induced Emission
- RLS - Regeneration Laser Station
- ROTV - Remotely Operated Towed Vehicle





