Doppler-free spectroscopy using a continuous-wave optical frequency synthesizer

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4910-4915

  Inaba, Hajime ^a   Ikegami, Takeshi ^a   Hong, Feng Lei ^a   Bitou, Youichi ^a   Onae, Atsushi ^a   Schibli, Thomas R ^a   Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE (CW) OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER; DOPPLER-FREE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATOR; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB;

SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749829153     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.004910     Document Type: Article

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