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Optical instruments

Optical instruments and apparatus: lenses, magnifiers, microscopes, spectacles, telescopes, binoculars, etc.; fibre-optic devices.

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Meaning

Language

Themes and places

Advanced Atmospheric sounder and Imaging Radiometer

Broadband Imaging X-ray All-sky Survey

Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors

Air Force Maui Optical System

The abbreviation AMOS (Air Force Maui Optical System) includes the abbreviation AF (Air Force).

Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer

Optical instruments

Australia Telescope National Facility (https://www.atnf.csiro.au/)

ACTS Optical System

Optical instruments

Alignment Optical Telescope

Allen Telescope Array

Australian Telescope Compact Array

Apollo Telescope Mount

Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility

Applied Optics

Burst Alert Telescope

Broad Band X-Ray Telescope

Broadband X-Ray Telescope

Bulletin d’information du téléscope Canada-France-Hawaii

Burst Detector Optical Sensor

Optical instruments

Backup Optical Unit

Coupling-Display Scanning-Telescope Manual Control

Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrument(ation) for Shuttle

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

= MCBL | Microscope Confocal à Balayage Laser | In French

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

= MCBL | Microscopie Confocale à Balayage Laser | In French

Coherent Optical Radar Amplifier

Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometer Telescope for Atmosphere

Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits

= CoRoT | Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires | In French

Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires

= CoRoT (see above)

Dedicated Interferometer for Rapid Variability

Optical instruments

Electro-Optical and Data Systems Group

Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope

Energetic Gamma Ray Explorer Telescope

Extremely Large Telescope

Fiber-Optic

The abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic) is included in abbreviations such as FODS (Fiber-Optic Demonstration System), FOG (Fiber-Optic Gyro), FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) and FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link).

Faint Object Camera

Optical instruments

Fiber-Optic Demonstration System

The abbreviation FODS (Fiber-Optic Demonstration System) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).

Optical instruments

Fiber-Optic Gyro

The abbreviation FOG (Fiber-Optic Gyro) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).

Fiber-Optic Guided Missile

The abbreviation FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile) includes abbreviations FO (Fiber-Optic) and GM (Guided Missile).

Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link

The abbreviation FOIRL (Fiber-Optic Inter-Repeater Link) includes the abbreviation FO (Fiber-Optic).

Fiber Optics Research Center (www.fibopt.ru/eng/)

Faint Object Spectrograph

Field Test Telescope

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder

High-Resolution Infrared Radiometer

High-Resolution Mirror Assembly

Optical instruments

Hubble Space Telescope

Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope

High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope

Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

Infrared Background Sensor

Infrared Instrumentation System

The abbreviation IRIS (Infrared Instrumentation System) includes the abbreviation IS (Instrumentation System).

Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder

Image Steering Mirror

Optical instruments

Infrared Space Observatory

Infrared Telescope Unit

Infrared Physics and Technology

Journal of Microscopy

Large-Aperture Infrared Telescope

LODE Advanced Mirror Program

Large Mirror Development

Optical instruments

Local Optical Correction System

Optical instruments

Large Space Telescope

Large Stellar Telescope

Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope

Millimeter-wave Atmospheric Sounder

Microscope Confocal à Balayage Laser

= CLSM, MCBL (see above)

Microscopie Confocale à Balayage Laser

= CLSM, MCBL (see above)

Multifunctional Infrared Coherent Optical Sensor

Mobile IGOR Tracking Telescope System

Monochrome Lens Assembly

Optical instruments

Microwave Limb Sounder

Multimode Optical Sensor

Optical instruments

Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer

Multispectral Scanner and Data System

Microwave Sounding Unit

Optical instruments

Maintenance Test Equipment, Optical

The abbreviation MTEO (Maintenance Test Equipment, Optical) includes abbreviations MTE (Maintenance Test Equipment) and TE (Test Equipment).

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

Optical Assembly Simulator

Optical instruments

Optical Diagnostic Assembly

Optical instruments

Optical Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar

The abbreviation OISAR (Optical Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar) includes abbreviations SAR (Synthetic-Aperture Radar) and ISAR (Inverse Synthetic-Aperture Radar).

Optical Telescope Assembly

Photoactivated Localization Microscopy

Optical instruments

Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer

Reimaging Lens

Optical instruments

Relay Mirror

Optical instruments

Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer

Sky and Telescope

Space Infrared Telescope Facility

Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility

Silicon X-Ray Array

System Optical Quality

Solar Optical Telescope

Spatial Infrared Telescope

Space Telescope

Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy

Space Telescope Science Institute (https://www.stsci.edu/)

Terminal Tracking Telescope

Télescope Héliographique pour l’Étude du Magnétisme et des Instabilités

Temperature/Humidity Infrared Radiometer

Technology Mirror Assembly

Optical instruments

Teal Ruby Experiment/Infrared Telescope Unit

Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

Unit Telescope

VISSR Atmospheric Sounder

Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System

Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer

Very Large Telescope

Wide Field Planetary Camera

Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment

X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy