Low-amplitude-noise laser for AURIGA detector optical readout

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 5732-5738

  Conti, Livia ^a,c   De Rosa, Maurizio ^b   Marin, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GRAVITATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LASER SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0000290291     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005732     Document Type: Article

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