supercontinuum

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What does supercontinuum mean?

light having both high spatial coherence and broad spectral bandwidth; i.e. laser light that is not monochromatic

Where does supercontinuum come from?

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English continuum English supercontinuum From super- + continuum.

How to pronounce supercontinuum

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