Design and initial operation of a 367-m2rectangular ring laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1685-1688

  Dunn, Robert W ^a   Shabalin, Dmitry E ^b   Thirkettle, Robert J ^b   Mac Donald, Graeme J ^b   Stedman, Geoffrey E ^b   Schreiber, K Ulrich ^c  

^a HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Forschungseinrichtung Satellitengeodäsie der Technischen Universität Mü nchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM NEON LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; PARTIAL PRESSURE;

VACUUM RING RESONATORS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0037139023     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001685     Document Type: Article

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