Laser beam quality and pointing measurement with an optical resonator

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Kwee, Patrick ^a   Seifert, Frank ^a   Willke, Benno ^a   Danzmann, Karsten ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

COMPACT DIAGNOSTIC BREADBOARD; HERMITE-GAUSSIAN MODES; OPTICAL RING RESONATOR;

LASER BEAMS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547603271     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2754400     Document Type: Article

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