Stabilization and frequency measurement of the I2-stabilized Nd : YAG laser

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 583-586

  Hall, John L ^a   Ma, Long Sheng ^b   Taubman, Matthew ^c   Tiemann, Bruce ^c   Hong, Feng Lei ^f   Pfister, Olivier ^d   Ye, Jun ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Quantum Optics Group   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Laser stabilization; Modulation transfer; Nd : YAG laser; Optical frequency measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001361110     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769663     Document Type: Article

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