Submegahertz linewidth at 240 GHz from an injection-locked free-electron laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Takahashi, Susumu ^a   Ramian, Gerald ^a   Sherwin, Mark S ^a   Brunel, Louis Claude ^b   Van Tol, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LINEWIDTH; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FOURIER TRANSFORM LIMIT; SOLID STATE SOURCES;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

EID: 35548944423     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2801700     Document Type: Article

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