Frequency stability at the kilohertz level of a rubidium-locked diode laser at 192.114 THz

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 27, 1998, Pages 6410-6414

  Bruner, Ariel ^a   Mahal, Vered ^a   Kiryuschev, Irena ^a   Arie, Ady ^a   Arbore, Mark A ^b   Fejer, Martin M ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000402899     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.006410     Document Type: Article

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