A high coherence, high stability laser for the photonic local oscillator distribution of the atacama large millimeter array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1115-1126

  Cliche, Jean François ^a   Shillue, Bill ^b   Latrasse, Christine ^a   Têtu, Michel ^a   D'Addario, Larry ^b  

^a DiCOS Technologies Inc   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALMA; Coherence, linewidth; Fiber; Interferometer; Laser; LO distribution; Stabilization

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ARRAYS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

LINEWIDTH; LO DISTRIBUTION; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT DELAYS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 10444253905     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.580246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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