High-bandwidth laser frequency stabilization to a fiber-optic delay line

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 8491-8499

  Sheard, Benjamin S ^a   Gray, Malcolm B ^a   McClelland, David E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL CABLES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

FIBER OPTIC DELAY LINE; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; LASER FREQUENCY; OPTICAL FIBER DELAY LINE;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 33847069233     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008491     Document Type: Article

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