ALOT: Adaptive Large Optics Technologies
AO: atomic orbital
AOM: Acousto-Optical Modulator
APOC: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference
ApOpt: Applied Optics
BFZP: Bragg-Fresnel Zone Plate
BGM: Basis Generator Method
BS: beam splitter
CAPE: Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics
CCD: Charge Coupled Device
CDC: Correlated-Double-Capture
ChJIR: Chinese Journal of Infrared Research
ChJL: Chinese Journal of Lasers
CMMPE: Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics
COLTRIMS: Cold Target Recoil-Ion Momentum Spectroscopy
CTE: Correlated Transfer And Excitation
CTMC: classical trajectory Monte Carlo
CW: continuous wave
CXRS: Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy
DC: Double Capture
DCS: Differential Cross Section
DOPS: Dual Optics Particle Spectrometer
DOVIDs: Diffractive Optically Variable Image Devices
DUBBLE: Dutch-Belgian Beamline
ECRIS: electron cyclotron resonance ion source
ELT: Extremely Large Telescope
EOM: Electron-Optical Modulator
ESO: European Southern Observatory
FiIO: Fiber and Integrated Optics
FIOpt: Fiber Integrated Optics
FSR: free spectral range
FWHM: full width at half maximum
FWHM: Full Width Half Maximum
FZP: Fresnel zone plate
HEL: High-Energy Laser
HELF: High-Energy Laser Fluence
HELSTF: High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility
HFP: Hardened Focal Plane
HIR: Hologram Image Register
HOE: holographic optical element