CAD computer-aided design
CAIBE chemically assisted ion-beam etching
CARS coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy
CBE chemical beam epitaxy
CCD charge coupled device
CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health (of FDA)
CET Cooperative Energy Transfer
Ch choroid
CID charge-injection device
CIE Commission International de I’Eclairage
CMBH capped mesa buried heterostructure
COD catastrophic optical damage
CPM colliding-pulse mode-locked
CSBC channel substrate buried crescent
CSO composite second order
cw continuous wave
