Giant excess noise and transient gain in misaligned laser cavities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Firth, William J ^a   Yao, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER CAVITIES; MISALIGNMENT; TRANSIENT GAIN;

LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT EMISSION; TRANSIENTS;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 27144549557     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.073903     Document Type: Article

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