Extending the continuous tuning range of an external-cavity diode laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 9013-9020

  Repasky, Kevin S ^a   Nehrir, Amin R ^a   Hawthorne, Justin T ^a   Switzer, Gregg W ^b   Carlsten, John L ^c  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

^b AdvR Incorporated   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; FEEDBACK; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS TUNING; ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK LOOP; EXTERNAL-CAVITY; LITTMAN-METCALF;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 33846221545     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.009013     Document Type: Article

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