Progress toward an optical frequency chain at NPL

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 578-582

  Lea, Stephen N ^a   Macfarlane, Graham M ^a   Huang, Guilong ^a   Gill, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Optical frequency conversion; Optical frequency measurements; Optical parametiric oscillation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004596842     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.769662     Document Type: Article

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