Fundamental mode, single-frequency laser amplifier for gravitational wave detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 459-465

  Frede, Maik ^a   Schulz, Bastian ^a   Wilhelm, Ralf ^a   Kwee, Patrick ^b   Seifert, Frank ^b   Willke, Benno ^b   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DEGRADATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

AMPLIFICATION PROCESS; BEAM QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASER AMPLIFIER;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33846558873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000459     Document Type: Article

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