Ultrastable optical frequency reference at 1.064 μm using a C2HD molecular overtone transition

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 178-182

  Ye, Jun ^a   Ma, Long Sheng ^b   Hall, John L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; FREQUENCY STABILITY; MOLECULES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ALLAN VARIANCE; SATURATED MOLECULAR OVERTONE TRANSITIONS;

FREQUENCY STANDARDS;

EID: 0031119268     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571806     Document Type: Article

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