Narrow-linewidth master-oscillator power amplifier based on a semiconductor tapered amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4871-4875

  Wilson, Andrew C ^a   Sharpe, Johnathan C ^a   McKenzie, Callum R ^a   Manson, Peter J ^a   Warrington, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; PERFORMANCE; RUBIDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; DOPPLER FREE TWO PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY; FULL WAVE HALF MAXIMUM; NARROW LINEWIDTH; PHOTON TRANSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR TAPERED AMPLIFIER;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032118104     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004871     Document Type: Article

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