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supercollimations

supercollimations is the plural of supercollimation.

Meaning of supercollimation

Noun

supercollimation (usually uncountable, plural supercollimations)

  1. (usually) The focusing of radiation into a finite-width beam that shows very little diffraction.
    • In photonic crystals, such thresholdless #92;mathcal#123;PT#125; transitions are shown to yield significant control over the band structure of the system, and can result in all-angle supercollimation, a #92;mathcal#123;PT#125;-superprism effect, and unidirectional behavior..2016, Alexander Cerjan, Aaswath Raman, Shanhui Fan, “Exceptional contours and band structure design in parity-time symmetric photonic crystals”, in arXiv

Questions about supercollimations

What is supercollimations the plural of?
Supercollimations is the plural of supercollimation.

Words near supercollimations in the dictionary

  1. supercollapsar
  2. supercollapsars
  3. supercollider
  4. supercolliders
  5. supercollimation
  6. supercollimations
  7. supercollision
  8. supercollisions
  9. supercolonial
  10. supercoloniality
  11. supercolonies

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