Phase-Coherent Synthesis and Precision Frequency Measurements in the Far Infrared

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn IM-30, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 132-138

  De Marchi, Andrea ^a   Godone, Aldo ^a   Bava, Elio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY METERS;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS;

EID: 0019582030     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: 15579662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.1981.6312461     Document Type: Article

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1. A vast literature exists on the subject. For an extensive bibliography see for example: K. M. Evenson and F. R. Petersen, “Laser frequency measurements, the speed of light and the meter,” in Topics in Applied Physics (vol. 2, Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules). Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1976, ch. VI.
2. CCDM Report to the CIPM, 6th section, June 1979, recommendation M-2.
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