AUC	Area Under the Curve
DAQ	Data Acquisition Board
DCT	Discrete Cosine Transform
FDTD	Finite Differences Time Domain
FFT	Fast Fourier Transform
FIB	Focused Ion Beam
LDA	Linear Discriminant Analysis
MEEP	MIT Electromagnetic Equation Propagation
MM	Multi Mode
OT	Optical Tweezers
PDF	Probability Density Function
PMMA	Poly(methyl methacrylate)
RI	Refractive Index
SM	Single Mode
SNR	Signal-to-noise Ratio