Tunable optical microwave source using spatially resolved laser eigenstates

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 384-386

  Brunel, M ^a   Bretenaker, F ^a   Le Floch, A ^a  

^a LPL Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers URU 435   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ETALONS; HETERODYNING; LASER RESONATORS; LASER TUNING; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATIONS; POLARIZATION;

BEAT SIGNAL; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; LASER EIGENSTATES; POLARIZERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0031098790     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000384     Document Type: Article

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