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  2. Optical disc - Wikipedia

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  3. Astigmatism (optical systems) - Wikipedia

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    Astigmatism: The image of point G is at point B M for rays in plane M, and at point B S for rays in plane S.. An optical system with astigmatism is one where rays that propagate in two perpendicular planes have different foci.

  4. Compact Disc File System - Wikipedia

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    The Compact Disc File System (CDFS) is a file system for read-only and write-once CD-ROMs developed by Simson Garfinkel and J. Spencer Love at the MIT Media Lab between 1985 and 1986. [1]

  5. Beam splitter - Wikipedia

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    Phase shift through a beam splitter with a dielectric coating. Beam splitters are sometimes used to recombine beams of light, as in a Mach–Zehnder interferometer.In this case there are two incoming beams, and potentially two outgoing beams.

  6. Optical time-domain reflectometer - Wikipedia

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    An OTDR. An optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) is an optoelectronic instrument used to characterize an optical fiber.It is the optical equivalent of an electronic time domain reflectometer which measures the impedance of the cable or transmission line under test.

  7. Adaptive optics - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive thin shell mirror. [5]Adaptive optics was first envisioned by Horace W. Babcock in 1953, [6] [7] and was also considered in science fiction, as in Poul Anderson's novel Tau Zero (1970), but it did not come into common usage until advances in computer technology during the 1990s made the technique practical.

  8. Dispersion-shifted fiber - Wikipedia

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    Dispersion-shifted fiber (DSF) is a type of optical fiber made to optimize both low dispersion and low attenuation.. Dispersion Shifted Fiber is a type of single-mode optical fiber with a core-clad index profile tailored to shift the zero-dispersion wavelength from the natural 1300 nm in silica-glass fibers to the minimum-loss window at 1550 nm.

  9. List of skin conditions - Wikipedia

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    Rash due to measles. Many skin conditions affect the human integumentary system—the organ system covering the entire surface of the body and composed of skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands. [1]