Quasi-Fourier-transform limited, scannable, high energy titanium-sapphire laser source for high resolution spectroscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Dupré, Patrick ^a   Miller, Terry A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; SLAVE MASTER TANDEM CAVITY; SPECTRAL LINEWIDTHS; TUNABLE INJECTION;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LASER TUNING; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 34047173572     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2670804     Document Type: Article

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