Phase noise characteristics of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser in an unbalanced fiber-optic interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3425-3428

  Meng, Zhou ^a,b   Hu, Yongming ^b   Xiong, Shuidong ^b   Stewart, George ^a   Whitenett, Gillian ^a   Culshaw, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; JITTER; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

INTERFEROMETRIC FIBER SENSORS; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCES (OPD); PATH-MATCHING; PHASE NOISES;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 20844433566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003425     Document Type: Article

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