Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Auffächerung

English translation:

spread

Added to glossary by Jonathan Whiteley
Dec 13, 2007 16:22
16 yrs ago
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German term

Auffächerung

German to English Tech/Engineering Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts) Lasers
Nach dem Objektiv ist die Auffächerung mindestens nochmal doppelt so groß, so daß am Ausgang eine um den Faktor 10 geringere Leuchtdichte vorliegt.

This is part of description of class 1M laser device. They are talking about what happens to the beam after it leaves lens.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 spread
3 +1 fan-out or fanning out
3 range
3 -1 diversification

Proposed translations

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spread

or if you want to be more technical "spatial dispersion"
Peer comment(s):

agree Cetacea : " beam spread" is perfectly okay. See e.g. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989SPIE.1103...83L
33 mins
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-1
8 mins

diversification

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Peer comment(s):

neutral Derek Ferrari-Frankland (X) : it would be if the context was commerce
6 mins
disagree Cetacea : Laser beams don't diversify.
37 mins
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19 mins

range

Die Rede ist von Bildern, in denen die Auffächerung der Tonwerte, die Ausdifferenzierung der feinsten Lichtstufe eigentlich erst den Resonanzraum des Bildes schafft.

I am talking here of pictures in which the range of different tones, the distinction between the finest degrees of difference in light first created the space in which the picture resonates.

http://www.artist-guide.com/cgi-bin/search/user_search.cgi?a...
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+1
8 hrs

fan-out or fanning out

s.u. und:

"A single TEM00 laser beam can be spilt into an arbitrary fan-out of beams all emanating from point A by an appropriate computer-designed diffraction grating ...
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v424/n6950/full/nature01935.h... - "
Peer comment(s):

agree Peter Manda (X) : yup.
41 mins
Thanks, bowtie.
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