Continuously tunable, precise, single frequency optical signal generator

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 515-520

  Jost, John D ^a   Hall, John L ^a   Ye, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; STABILITY; TUNING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CARRIER WAVES; PULSE GENERATION; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

SIGNAL GENERATORS;

EID: 0012221733     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.000515     Document Type: Article

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