Frequency locking of tunable diode lasers to a rubidium-stabilized ring-cavity resonator

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2528-2531

  Banerjee, Ayan ^a   Das, Dipankar ^a   Rapol, Umakant D ^a   Natarajan, Vasant ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LASER BEAMS; LASER MODE LOCKING; MIRRORS; RUBIDIUM; TEMPERATURE;

FABRY-PEROT REFERENCE CAVITIES; FREQUENCY LOCKING; RING-CAVITY RESONATOR; TUNABLE DIODE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2142650758     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.002528     Document Type: Article

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