Frequency measurement of an Ar+ laser stabilized on narrow lines of molecular iodine at 501.7 nm

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 754-758

  du Burck, Fraédéric ^a   Daussy, Christophe ^a   Amy Klein, Anne ^a   Goncharov, Andrei N ^b   Lopez, Olivier ^a   Chardonnet, Christian ^a   Wallerand, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

Frequency modulation (FM) spectroscopy; Iodine spectroscopy; Optical frequency measurement; Residual amplitude modulation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAS LASERS; IODINE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PUMPING (LASER); SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARGON LASER; IODINE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; RESIDUAL AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 17444411828     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.843579     Document Type: Article

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