Toward an accurate frequency standard at 1.5 μm based on the acetylene overtone band transition

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 563-566

  Onae, Atsushi ^a   Okumura, Ken'ichiro ^a   Yoda, Jun ^a   Nakagawa, Ken'ichi ^b   Yamaguchi, Atsushi ^b   Kourogi, Motonobu ^c   Imai, Kazuhiro ^c   Widiyatomoko, Bambang ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylene molecule; Allan variance; Frequency standard; Laser frequency stabilization; Laser spectroscopy; Optical communications; Overtone band transition; Saturation spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001424683     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769658     Document Type: Article

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