Q spoil

English

Verb

Q spoil (third-person singular simple present Q spoils, present participle Q spoiling, simple past and past participle Q spoiled)

1. Alternative form of Q-spoil
   • 1962, SPIE Journal - Volumes 1-2, page 233:

     Model 402 Laser Q Spoiler is designed to Q spoil laser beams up to 5/8" in diameter.

   • 1967, G. C. Vorie, T. R. Babcock, Program of research for selective aperture Q-spoiling of a lasar with birefringement scanning mechanism to achieve beam steering, page 12:

     The equipment for the experiment was In Figure 8, the quarter-wave plate was positioned to "Q" spoil the cavity during the absence of a shear wave in the birefringent bar.

   • 1977, Journal of the Optical Society of America:

     A unique realization of a one-bounce Fresnel rhomb is presented which, in concert with a linear polarizer, may be used to Q spoil a laser cavity.