Mode-locking external-cavity laser-diode sensor for displacement measurements of technical surfaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5180-5189

  Czarske, Jürgen ^a   Möbius, Jasper ^b   Moldenhauer, Karsten ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT; LASER-DIODE SENSORS; SOLID-STATE SURFACE; TECHNICAL SURFACES;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 25444517736     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005180     Document Type: Article

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