Synchrotron, Bragg Reflector, Misc

A synchrotron is a device in which electrical and magnetic fields are utilized to accelerate a charged particle (electron or proton) around a circular loop. Because the particle is accelerating, it emits em waves (perpendicular to it's acceleration, thus, tangent to the circlular loop). If a tube in connected to the synchrotron tangent to the loop, the tube will see extremely short bursts of light.

A Bragg reflector is a series of material layers of different thickness and refractive index which casues constructive intereference of the reflected light. Each layer partialy reflects light, causing a high amount of light to be reflected. The end result is a highly reflective device.

MBE = Molecular Beam Epitaxy
MCVD = Metal Chemical Vapor Deposition

A raster scan is scan that sequentially looks at every element in a grid. A vector scan only looks at the areas that need attention (i.e. that have data).