Spectral characteristics of an all solid-state frequency-shifted feedback laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Nakamura, Koichiro ^b,f   Abe, Fumitoshi ^b,c   Kasahara, Kumio ^a,b,d,f,g   Hara, Takefumi ^b,e   Sato, Manabu ^b   Ito, Hiromasa ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e Koden Electronics Co   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^g MELCO   (Japan)

Author keywords

All solid state laser; Frequency chirp; Frequency shifted feedback

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATIONS; SCANNING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTOOPTIC MODULATOR; FREQUENCY SHIFTED FEEDBACK LASER; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0030816982     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.554902     Document Type: Article

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