| Acronym | Full Name |
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| 4CS | Four-Corners Section (APS) |
| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AAPT | American Association of Physics Teachers |
| AIP | American Institute of Physics |
| AMO | Atomic, Molecular, and Optical |
| ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| APS | American Physical Society, or Advanced Photon Source |
| BCDI | Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging |
| CDI | Coherent Diffraction Imaging |
| CLEO | Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics |
| CXD | Coherent X-ray Diffraction |
| CXI | Coherent X-ray Imaging |
| DCT | Diffraction Contrast Tomography |
| DLS | Division of Laser Science (Optica) |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| ePIE | Extended Ptychographic Iterative Engine |
| ER | Error Reduction (algorithm) |
| ESRF | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| FFTW | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West |
| FiO+LS | Frontiers in Optics & Laser Science (conference) |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HHG | High-harmonic Generation |
| HIO | Hybrid Input-Output (algorithm) |
| HXR | Hard X-Ray |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LASER | Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCLS | Linac Coherent Light Source (SLAC) |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| MOSW | Ministry of Silly Walks |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards & Technology |
| OSA | Optical Society of America (now called Optica) |
| PIE | Ptychographic Iterative Engine |
| rPIE | Regularized Ptychographic Iterative Engine |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| SPS | Society of Physics Students |
| SULI | Student Undergraduate Laboratory Internship |
| SXR | Soft X-Ray |
| XCDI | X-ray Coherent Diffractive Imaging |
| XFEL | X-ray Free Electron Laser |
