Abbreviations
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AIP American Institute of Physics
APS American Physical Society
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
IUPAP International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
OSA Optical Society of America
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Acknowledgement
This text has evolved as the result of collaborations with PhD students, postdocs and senior colleagues of the University of Amsterdam, University of Twente and the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics.